I’m going through an innovation meltdown. Maybe it’s a developer mid-life crisis I’m having. Maybe it’s all in my early-adopting mind. But it feels real and I can’t take much more of this without throwing caution to the wind and….and….coding.
What’s the “this” I’m talking about? This time it’s about a little music and a little thing called the iPhone. Seems some creative types have been creating little virtual instruments for their iPhones. Stuff.co.nz has the details and YouTube has some videos you can check out of their music. Here’s one that’s been viewed over 2 million times since its posting in February.
Why is this a big deal? It’s not. But the thing is, that this is yet another one of those little things that the UMPC should have enabled. Unfortunately the hardware wasn’t quite there. But this was only part of the issue. If you ask me, the UMPC builder “community” wasn’t up for it either and without their support….you know what happens. And by “community” here I don’t mean the end users–I mean those creating the devices and their experiences. You fill in the blanks with your favorite names.
Here’s the thing. It’s with little stuff like this that inspires. Especially on the consumer side. But over the last while I’ve heard the creaks and cracks of too many shrugging shoulders, telling me it’s not all that.
I made a mistake. I listened to them. I shouldn’t have. I should have pushed, prodded, and produced. I didn’t. And now I’m bummed.
Put simply: I don’t like sitting on the back of the innovation bus. I don’t want to ride there and unfortunately that’s where I’m at in too many respects. I don’t like it.
So I’ll say it again: The Tablet PC/UMPC/MID-builder community better get a good touch solution out and fast or it’s simply not going to matter any more. I’ll put it more colorfully: That clock-is-ticking sound you hear is no clock–it’s the chug-chug of the technology train leaving the station.