i would like for Nokia to create a dock able phone, what i mean is that if i could take my cellphone and dock it into some sort cradle – the cradle could be connected to a monitor and keyboard and that would allow me to have a fully fledged computer to do those things that i cannot do on a cellphone
Nokia already has an OS [Meego] for this and this should not be too difficult technically to accomplish.
]]>But, lets not just look at these big companies, lets look at ourselves, our universities and our own business or societies. Nokia, Google, and the rest can easily drop the money over to us. I’ve talk to a couple of folks and they in deed think ideas here are very fertile and can be taken upon. The key factor here is organization, organization, organization…, organization. (This kind of sounds like Balmer’s, “developers, developers…developers” yell… 😀 )
Incubators need to be proactive… I teach my students that… an app does not need more than $1000 to build, you just need a few things to be successful
An idea you are passionate about and that you willingly develop
A team (it doesn’t have to be large)
Build your product
Talk about it (Have a site, use social networks, strike deals with network operators)
Talk to big companies, talk to friends, make it large
Create a user experience (this inherently creates a large userbase)
Iteratively add more features to your app… please research the solution and how a particular need it addressed. A story is told of a Soviet aeronautic engineer who designed a magnificent plane. The test pilot came to take the machine for a quick spin in the air, but when the pilot entered the plane, he never took more than 4 minutes in it. He disembarked, walked up towards the engineer, shook his hand and congratulated him for building this perfect piece of machinery. But there was a “but” in his statement to the engineer: “…,but, if you can give me a third hand, I’ll gladly use the two that I have to steer the plane, and my third hand to pull the lever…”; the gist of this story is design things/applications that will work for the community.
Well… if you have a good product, people will always follow, companies will invest in it, and life will be fun… good products change lives. Nokia will know that.. and it will provide more support… this is still the same with other companies. 🙂 thanks.
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