Quick WebApp: Google Wave for iPhone (and Everything Else!)
If there is one truth in the inter-verse, it’s this: Give Google time, and their WebApps will blow. your. mind. Some are brilliant, like Google Maps or Gmail. Some are tragic, like contacts, but all of them push the browserspace further and faster each and every time.
Their latest is Google Wave, revealed at I/O last week and built by the same brothers that kicked off the AJAX explosion with Google Maps. It asks the simple yet profound question: what if internet communication hadn’t been architected 40 years ago with email, but was imagined today?
Highly configurable, fabulously interactive, and — of course — entirely web-server centric, Google Wave lets users connect and work with other users via any browser and many devices. And you know the iPhone was front and center (alongside Android).
YouTube seems to be suffering lately (I blame Dieter’s Palm Pre videos for clogging the hubs!), and at an hour and twenty minutes long, the video above is time consuming to say the least, but if you watch even the beginning of it, win, lose, or draw, the glimpse it gives into the future of WebApps and especially mobile WebApps is fascinating.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:26 am
This will be a MAJOR step up from the normal E-Mail format. I’m so excited for this. And as an Android user I can not anticipate this enough! =]
June 5th, 2009 at 10:29 am
It crashed… i’m not impressed.. =p
June 5th, 2009 at 10:30 am
I just can’t get through the whole video. The guy’s voice annoys me for some reason.
June 5th, 2009 at 10:30 am
This is a blog for and about the iPhone. Why is it you guys post video that will play on the iPhone?
June 5th, 2009 at 10:30 am
The video won’t show I’m on my iPhone, can someone post a link please?
June 5th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Yeah, if this blog is about the iphone and has a mobile version of the site, why isn’t the video compatible with the iPhone? Sounds cool though!
June 5th, 2009 at 11:05 am
YouTube’s servers has been messing up since last night for some reason.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Calm Down it is youtube’s falt they have to turn the video into iPhone format.
June 5th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I don’t see how it’s shady when they showed it on all 3 popular browsers =/
June 5th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I wonder if Google coverts 1hr+ video for iPhone?
FYI – Much as we’d love to, we don’t control the video formats used all over the interwebs. Whenever we get a non-iPhone friendly video, we ask if we can convert and repost it, and sometimes we’re given permission and we do.
Otherwise, they own the rights to their videos. However, we agree with you (and think telling any company who’s not posting iPhone-friendly videos that you’d prefer it if they would, thanks much!)
June 5th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
wont show on your iphone!? maybe thats cause of the length haha..such a long youtube video.
June 5th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I’d say, Google can be considered as a forward-thinking, out-of-the-box, progressing Co… Ofcourse, behind Apple that is. The two companies should merge and eat Microsoft whole!
June 5th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
@Alex G
You forget…what company is using Google’s software???
I see things as Google being king, Apple prince! =]
June 5th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Wow. I really love this. It’s like twitter but with 1000 more features built on top of it.
its nice.
I’m kinda mad the iPhone was on GPRS and couldn’t get a signal on Wi-Fi lol.