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Apple to Announce More Plans for iBeacon Technology at WWDC 2014

It's obvious this will permit geospatial advertisements. You're walking down the street (with blue tooth on and iBeacon permitted) and pass a pub with an iBeacon advertisement for drink specials. You're in a mall and get notified of sales as you pass door fronts, etc. I can see it's potential but personally it seems as another unnecessary technological intrusion in our daily lives.
 
FuNGi said:
It's obvious this will permit geospatial advertisements. You're walking down the street (with blue tooth on and iBeacon permitted) and pass a pub with an iBeacon advertisement for drink specials. You're in a mall and get notified of sales as you pass door fronts, etc. I can see it's potential but personally it seems as another unnecessary technological intrusion in our daily lives.
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False.

You HAVE to install the app that corresponds with that specific ibeacon for it to notify you of anything. As of right now it is strictly opt in.
 
Apple to Announce More Plans for iBeacon Technology at WWDC 2014

Wouldn't suprise me. Seems like it's too far ahead of it's time though.

Nunofaria21 said:
The thread rush before WWDC :D
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Macrumors needs to get a better plan so the servers don't get overloaded.
Usually when I try to log on during/shortly after an Apple event the server is too busy and forums unavailable.
 
NT1440 said:
Location awareness indoors. Interactive museum tours. Curated walking tours through cities. Ballparks are already using them to offer up better seats to those sitting in the nosebleeds when the stadium is undersold.

The possibilities are literally endless, you just need to have a bit of imagination.

I've got a neat little concept for indoor rock climbing that I've been mulling over, but I'm waiting for the watch to tie it all together.... ;)
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Yeah, the possibilities are endless but the real uses are non-existant.
 
I am looking forward to the news about Mac OS X.X (AKA Great Big Rock). I am also hoping they will announce a new Apple TV that runs apps. I have been waiting to get an upgraded Apple TV for quite some time in hopes of that upgrade.

iBeacon would be great when in a strange airport and needing to find a connecting flight.
 
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Shopping app Shopkick and Macy's partnered to integrate the technology into stores to assist consumers, while Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association have used the technology to provide enhanced live experiences.
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Hmmm. . . "Assist consumers" and "provide enhanced live experiences" –*what lovely, lovely euphemisms for plying us with increasingly targeted advertisements in the hope of making increasingly more money.
 
dumastudetto said:
This will be huge. Consumers love iBeacon technology and further advances can only strengthen the dominant position of iOS in the marketplace.
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It would be great if they sold these iBeacons in packages for home use...walk into a room and the lights turn on, walk out and they turn off...endless possibilities for home use
 
You can pretty much forget the live streaming. When they did this in the past, it never played all the way through without the server dropping the connection or poor quality.
 
boshii said:
My productivity will come to a screeching halt tomorrow at 1 EST. :D
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I put it on my calendar a few weeks back so nobody would schedule any meetings during that time. It just says WWDC. I'm pretty sure nobody on my team knows what that means but it sounds important. I mean, I did design an iPhone app for work recently so I need to watch it to determine if there are new features in iOS 8 we could have the developers implement in future versions…yeah, that's it! That's definitely why I've locked myself in my office for two hours. Strictly business all the way.

I'm really excited for some reason. I feel like it's going to be a really great keynote. Apple has been too quiet lately. Something has to give, and hopefully we won't have to wait until autumn for all of it.
 
There's A LOT of potential uses for this. Example:

You enter a super market, go to the frozen food aisle, and you receive a message: "This week we have frozen pizza XXXXX at 50% discount".

The sheer amount of spam could be an issue though. Could you perhaps get a message every time you walk by every store along the mall?
 
My guess is iBeacon support will be part of the smart home toolkit.
 
KohPhiPhi said:
There's A LOT of potential uses for this. Example:

You enter a super market, go to the frozen food aisle, and you receive a message: "This week we have frozen pizza XXXXX at 50% discount".

The sheer amount of spam could be an issue though. Could you perhaps get a message every time you walk by every store along the mall?
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Only if you download the mall's app. If you don't opt in, they can't send you stuff. If Walmart tricks you into downloading their app, they can spam you all they want, while you are in their store. That will not cause you to get notifications from the local coffee house.
 
Ralf The Dog said:
Only if you download the mall's app. If you don't opt in, they can't send you stuff. If Walmart tricks you into downloading their app, they can spam you all they want, while you are in their store. That will not cause you to get notifications from the local coffee house.
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Perhaps Apple will bundle in there own app that you cant uninstall that will become the receiver of all these notifications.

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KohPhiPhi said:
There's A LOT of potential uses for this. Example:

You enter a super market, go to the frozen food aisle, and you receive a message: "This week we have frozen pizza XXXXX at 50% discount".
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Do most people really pay attention to there cell phones while in the market? I'm usually looking at the isles trying to figure out what I want to buy. Having to pull my phone out to look at an advertisement notification would be super annoying.
 
This could be the innovation that we've been waiting for a while. This is the way Apple changes the world like they did with ipod, iPhone, and iPad.
 
KohPhiPhi said:
There's A LOT of potential uses for this. Example:

You enter a super market, go to the frozen food aisle, and you receive a message: "This week we have frozen pizza XXXXX at 50% discount".

The sheer amount of spam could be an issue though. Could you perhaps get a message every time you walk by every store along the mall?
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This is exactly it. Everyone mentioning how great it will work in museums is missing the other 99.99999% of the time it will be used - cramming even more advertising down our throats.

Welcome to the future. You will have to turn off your mobile phone when you go outside. Ain't the future grand?
 
boshii said:
My productivity will come to a screeching halt tomorrow at 1 EST. :D
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My little students will be doing some amazing colouring right at this time while teacher (that's me) turns on the keynote. OOHH... they can draw and colour what they hear and see. That is a good use of art time in the classroom...
 
I think ibeacons from a user's perspective is about the least exciting thing Apple has ever come up with.
 
I actually called this back in the year 2000 believe it or not. The initial version I worked on was in the late 1990s and which I called NewtonPoint as I had developed a proof of concept that had a front end working on Apple's Newton devices.

I approached Apple with the idea then, and had good feedback from their Apple PIE (Personal Interactive Electronics) group in Stockley Park in Uxbridge (UK).

When Apple canned the Newton in the late 90's, I renamed the project iPoint.

Back then, I used to run my own website called TopPocket.com. It was a news and information site for handhelds such as the Newton, Palm devices, Handspring, Psion, etc. It's now defunct - has been for the last 10 years or more.

You can find my write-up on iPoint here: http://www.toppocket.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/iPoint/ipoint.html as my old ISP still has the site cached after all these years!

If you're wondering, you can also find the site in the Wayback machine back around year 2000 if you think I only put those pages together yesterday :)

What's the point of this post? Nothing really, but kicking myself I didn't patent the idea back then!

Looking forward to see what the WWDC Keynote brings :)

RTP.
 
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