BoomTown Talks About the iPhone Apps Economy on the News Hour (Plus Some Future Stuff Blather)
by Kara Swisher
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 1:52 AM PT
Last night, the News Hour With Jim Lehrer aired a piece on PBS on “how technology companies are innovating amid the recession by designing popular new smart phone applications.”
BoomTown was asked to reprise my recurring role as a naysayer to tech hyperbole that always comes with the latest trend.
This time it was about how perhaps not all of the 65,000 apps being created by legions of third-party developers for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone–as well as for other smart phone platforms such as Google (GOOG) Android and Palm (PALM) Pre–will result in gold, diamonds and unicorns raining down on innovative entrepreneurs.
Well, except for the iBeer folks!
Oddly enough, I somehow went all Jules Verne at the end and started talking about ubiquitous screens on coffee tables, referencing the movie, “Minority Report” (which I love, despite the ever-annoying Tom Cruise).
So, I am obviously just as bad.
Here’s the video from the News Hour and, if you prefer, here is a link to the transcript:
In addition, here is a lovely clip from “Minority Report,” just because I like to embed stuff and it features that cool interactive mall scene and the USA Today e-newspaper (plus Portuguese subtitles!):
