{"id":310,"date":"2009-03-10T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:57:14","slug":"app-stores-microsoft-xbox-iphone-ted-iplayer-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/03\/10\/app-stores-microsoft-xbox-iphone-ted-iplayer-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"TED, iPhones, app stores and Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend I discovered the TED application<\/a> for my iPhone.\u00a0 For those not familiar with TED<\/a>, it\u2019s a conference in the states that focuses on Technology, Entertainment and Design.\u00a0 Speakers are invited to talk for 18 minutes on subjects important to them.\u00a0 There are a huge range of speakers and subjects, from Bill Gates<\/a> to JJ Abrams<\/a>.\u00a0 There really is some fascinating stuff there, its that\u2019s well worth a look.<\/p>\n

\"TED_iPhone\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So anyway, I found this iPhone application and spent a few hours on Sunday watching some of the talks.\u00a0 It struck me what a great idea the application was.\u00a0 It\u2019s roughly the same content as the TED website, but it just brings the whole thing together in a single app \u2013 another good example of software and services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whilst it\u2019s great having this on the iPhone, after a while I did begin to wonder why I was having to watch on a small screen held in my hand.\u00a0 Why couldn\u2019t I use my television?\u00a0 Of course I could hook it up to my PC and use the web site, but that\u2019s a lot of hassle and I\u2019ve already got an Xbox there.\u00a0 Surely I should be able to use that?\u00a0 It would beat the usual repeats of Friends that seem to make up Sunday afternoon TV during the F1 off season! :)<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t of course, there\u2019s no app for me to use.\u00a0 But there should be, not just for TED but YouTube<\/a>, maybe the BBC iPlayer<\/a>.\u00a0 Perhaps a host of other tools that people are used to on the iPhone.\u00a0 MS are missing a trick here I reckon.\u00a0 At the moment there\u2019s a huge amount of Software + Services (an MS terminology) innovation happening on the iPhone.\u00a0 It\u2019s really good stuff, but the device is somewhat limited by the fact it\u2019s a phone.\u00a0 MS should be making the XBox into the home equivalent.<\/p>\n

The XNA Creators Club<\/a> already goes some way to allow home-brew games, written by the community and published on XBox live.\u00a0 So the basic infrastructure is there.\u00a0 They have a well developed development environment (though how suitable it is for non-game applications I don\u2019t know) and a delivery and billing mechanism though XBox Live.\u00a0 App Stores seem to be the next big thing in the mobile world, but I reckon they could be equally important elsewhere.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m using XBox as an example here as I have one, but the same would also apply to the PS3 or Wii \u2013 indeed I believe you can already use the iPlayer and YouTube on both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are Microsoft missing a trick by not extending the Community Games in XBox Live into a full iPhone style App Store? Would applications for YouTube, iPlayer, TED and others be something the would pull in users and keep them on the Platform?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[238,121,240,13,239,36,241],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-app-stores","tag-iphone","tag-iplayer","tag-microsoft","tag-ted","tag-xbox","tag-youtube","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}