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Re: Evernote Hello

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Post by Elepsis »

SquareWheel wrote: post #30
lbotos wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 4S doesn't have NFC but speculators assume the iPhone 5 will.

I don't know about that, I can't see Apple wanting NFC to succeed. If they do they will need to already have some killer apps that use it, and have big deals in place with stores. Apple is incredibly secretive, but that'd be hard to prevent from getting out.

Are you suggesting that Apple would ignore a whole technology because it's hard to keep the fact they're working on it secret? Surely you're joking.

Re: Evernote Hello

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Post by baddox »

blatherard wrote: post #27
psychotik wrote: post #11

"Hand someone your phone" is a dealbreaker. Specially someone I want to remember - it means I don't know them already, ergo don't trust them with my phone.

I had the reverse reaction to the idea. There are few things I'd rather touch less than someone else's smartphone. I mean, these things seldom get cleaned, are often used on the toilet, and can host viruses and bacteria for long periods of time.

Will you shake someone's hand? Or for that matter, do you flush the toilet with your hand?

Re: Evernote Hello

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Post by [deleted] »

baddox wrote: post #33
blatherard wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the reverse reaction to the idea. There are few things I'd rather touch less than someone else's smartphone. I mean, these things seldom get cleaned, are often used on the toilet, and can host viruses and bacteria for long periods of time.

Will you shake someone's hand? Or for that matter, do you flush the toilet with your hand?

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Re: Evernote Hello

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Post by gglanzani »

When I saw the video my first thought was: VC money. They have to show how they're spending it, and so Evernote is more likely to develop a product could be the "next big thing" but that feels completely wrong for people outside the "VC money bubble".

Can you imagine if I had to go to a client and ask him to take a picture of him, going to "photo booth-mode"?[^1] Or a potential client, met somewhere?

[^1]: The video says the go automatically to "photo booth-mode" so I wouldn't have to ask, but still…

Re: Evernote Hello

#37

Post by zs11 »

This app has been around for a couple of months ... why the HN love now? This is OK for random networking. If you're looking for a proper CRM manager on iOS, try out Contacts Journal.

Re: Evernote Hello

#39

Post by Poiesis »

coderdude wrote: post #21
benologist wrote: post #15

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There are many parts of the world where a $700 phone is well worth running off with.

Well sure, but lets work off a real example. Are we talking about gangsters in south central Los Angeles, Nigerian scammers, start-up folk at a conference in Las Vegas, a co-worker (in any part of the world)? There are many people who you would or would not feel comfortable with handing your phone to while they tapped away right in front of you. My only suggestion here is that the people we usually ask for contact in…

My mom actually had to help someone who had their phone stolen in this fashion. In the women's restroom at the county fair, she csme across someone who was in need of some sort of medical assistance. This somewhat incapacitated woman handed her phone to another woman with instructions to call for help. This second woman then simply ran off with the phone, and shortly after my mom happened by.

Not Nigeria or LA, either.

Re: Evernote Hello

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Post by MaxGabriel »

Elepsis wrote: post #31
SquareWheel wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about that, I can't see Apple wanting NFC to succeed. If they do they will need to already have some killer apps that use it, and have big deals in place with stores. Apple is incredibly secretive, but that'd be hard to prevent from getting out.

Are you suggesting that Apple would ignore a whole technology because it's hard to keep the fact they're working on it secret? Surely you're joking.

No, square wheel is saying if apple were adding NFC to the iPhone 5, they'd have major apps prepared to use it, and be partnering with retail stores. He or she suggests that those are so big that despite Apple's secrecy, stories would come out. But because they haven't, Apple is unlikely to be adding NFC (Just paraphrasing--no opinion of my own here)
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