{"id":7532,"date":"2008-12-23T09:16:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T09:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/iphone_apps_first_microsoft_and_now_hp.html"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:16:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T09:16:02","slug":"iphone-apps-first-microsoft-and-now-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/iphone-apps-first-microsoft-and-now-hp.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Apps: First Microsoft and now HP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there no end to the Apple competitors developing iPhone apps? Moreover… Once the genie is out of the bottle, can they get it back in again. I think not. HP’s latest photo printing app<\/a> should be a quite useful way to print your photos from your Apple smartphone and Microsoft’s Seadragon<\/a> is a fantastic way to rapidly view volumes of photos on the iPhone in high resolution.<\/p>\n

To be honest, lots of reporters are making a big deal out of the news that competitors are developing these iPhone apps – and I guess I just did as well. But it really isn’t such a big deal as the iPhone has passed the critical mass threshold and needs to be taken seriously.
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The funny thing about me writing this post by the way is that in the past there was no one who was more anti-Apple than me (sorry Steve). I used to be an MIS Director and I brought desktop publishing to TMC in the eighties. At the time, the graphics world was on Macs and I decided Apples have no future so we used PCs.<\/p>\n

People tell me they are amazed how resilient TMC has been over the years – thriving while our competitors fold. I think part of the reason for our recent success is due to our experience of getting desktop publishing to work on PCs in the eighties. It was a daunting task as the applications were immature and the artists unsure of how a PC works. It taught me personally that if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.<\/p>\n

The amazing thing is twenty years later I find myself being more pro Apple than I ever thought possible. I didn’t think that much of the iPod but it certainly made me more comfortable with Apple.
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It is really the iPhone which pushed me over the edge and made me take the whole company seriously. I really feel Apple can take 25% or more marketshare in the PC wars because of the success of the iPod, iTunes and iPhone. This is up from 10%<\/a> or so worldwide today.<\/p>\n

Microsoft has to be concerned about this growing threat as application developers go where the money is and over time we can see a critical mass of developers developing on Macs first and PCs second or not at all.<\/p>\n

In the mean time, I am off on vacation – but before I leave, I just downloaded the HP iPrint application and was blown away that it immediately found the HP printer on my network (thank you Bonjour technology<\/a>) and started printing. It even tells you when there is a problem with the printer. Some areas for improvement include being able to print other sizes besides 4×6 inches and perhaps the ability to auto-adjust images so they print better. The few shots I printed looked grainier than they should be.<\/p>\n

I think this application will probably work great on a photo printer – the device I have is an L770 – which is more of a network printer.<\/p>\n

The app is free and if you have an HP printer it is worth a download<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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