Comments on: Programming for the iPhone; what app do YOU want? http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/04/08/programming-for-the-iphone-what-app-do-you-want/ A blog on multimedia training in the journalism industry Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:16:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Stephen Nowers http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/04/08/programming-for-the-iphone-what-app-do-you-want/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Stephen Nowers Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:04:40 +0000 http://blog.jeremyrue.com/?p=33#comment-60 Very interested to hear where you take this. I'm a little slow to mobile devices (must come from living in Alaska) but I'm sold on the journalist-as-programmer movement. How about an iPhone+breaking news game -- keying off something ongoing (like the twitter coverage of the Olympic torch in San Fran for example)? Very interested to hear where you take this. I’m a little slow to mobile devices (must come from living in Alaska) but I’m sold on the journalist-as-programmer movement. How about an iPhone+breaking news game — keying off something ongoing (like the twitter coverage of the Olympic torch in San Fran for example)?

]]> By: Milan Anric http://blog.jeremyrue.com/2008/04/08/programming-for-the-iphone-what-app-do-you-want/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Milan Anric Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:41:36 +0000 http://blog.jeremyrue.com/?p=33#comment-59 Video and audio recording would be nice. I don't have an iPhone, but if I did I would ask for that. I was at the Apple Store the other day and asked the same question and most of the staff there replied; if there's something you want that isn't already out there, it probably will be when we open their "apps" store in June or so. I assume the secret killer apps have already been written and are prepping for release soon. One other idea I had was saving/caching youtube videos so I could watch them offline. Or some kind of caching layer so I can save videos from the web. The killer app for me is giving my mom a device where she can look at videos of her grandkids without worrying about her network connection. Sure I could re-encode my sources for the iPhone, BUT that's not ideal for consumers. Once I post to some video service I should be done, it should be published and cacheable by smart clients or video players. So I guess the app I'm thinking about these days is a video player that can stream video and keep a library of your videos cached for offline viewing. Video and audio recording would be nice. I don’t have an iPhone, but if I did I would ask for that.

I was at the Apple Store the other day and asked the same question and most of the staff there replied; if there’s something you want that isn’t already out there, it probably will be when we open their “apps” store in June or so. I assume the secret killer apps have already been written and are prepping for release soon.

One other idea I had was saving/caching youtube videos so I could watch them offline. Or some kind of caching layer so I can save videos from the web. The killer app for me is giving my mom a device where she can look at videos of her grandkids without worrying about her network connection. Sure I could re-encode my sources for the iPhone, BUT that’s not ideal for consumers. Once I post to some video service I should be done, it should be published and cacheable by smart clients or video players.

So I guess the app I’m thinking about these days is a video player that can stream video and keep a library of your videos cached for offline viewing.

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