Before digital technology, you just got 4 pickers in the living room. If you wanted to record, you had them huddled around a mic. Sound balance? You just told the louder ones to move away.
I think I will go get the app just because that video was awesome.
If every iPhone app did something along those lines, showing someone actually doing really cool stuff with the App, they would probably sell more apps. Then again, if you could do really cool stuff with most Apps on the iPhone, that might also sell more apps....
hmmm, pretty high attrition rate there!
It reminded me of a cross between Kings of Leon and Talking Heads, thankyou for bringing this absurdity to my attention!
Why would you do this on your phone and not on your computer? He's already sitting in front of a computer with a video camera, mic, and audio output, after all.
Creativity can strike when a computer isn't near you? Not everyone has a computer? It's just s toy? There are lots of reasons to do this on a mobile device.
He is using touch, that would give him an advantage over using a mouse. You can buy graphics tablets for the PC/Mac which also support touch gestures, basically a graphics tablet which allows you to finger paint. The same things with touch and a screen are not cheap, the cheapest one I can think of is the iPod touch actually, and if the guy already has a smart phone which can do it, why not reuse it?
The way Apple has been able to attract developers to making all kinds of applications is really amazing. And this is despite all the bad press over the App Store's review process.
Having a strong developer community is typically where Microsoft has excelled. What happened?
Even the biggest incumbents have already been left in the dust. I've been looking for some 'cool', high-quality symbian apps, and as far as I can tell there aren't very many.
The iPhone has market share. Developers go where the market share is. Microsoft's desktop developer community is so strong because they own such a dominant slice of the desktop market. The iPhone is no different.
The Android market is making a really strong showing. It's not to the scale of the iPhone app economy yet, but with stuff like the N1 and Desire coming out, the potential for Android's market share to increase is quite strong, and with that come developers. If Android phones were to become popular enough, I have no doubt that developers would desert Apple and its punishing app store policies and gateways in record time.
Is it much easier to develop for the iPhone over Symbian phones? Are iPhone users more willing to pay money? Or perhaps Apple makes the payment process easier for developers, who no longer have to set up their own payment processing?
I don't know what the answer is, but it's not just market share.
This is the way you really make a commercial for the iPhone.
That was absolutely amazing. I have no beat-box skills, no rhythm and no music, and I still want to buy that app.