But the web app is not standalone: the phone must be connected to the internet or the conversation will drop out, and all of users' messages will remain on the phone.
Video is, at this point, off the table although it could be used in conjunction with stories but not standalone.
"IBM has a database, Lotus, Tivoli and middleware to draw on," says Cihra. "[HP's] OpenView is a great product, and Compaq has some fantastic clustering technology, but these are not standalone businesses.
For one thing, Nextel's industry is hard to measure on a P/E basis thanks to spotty profitability and two significant competitors Cingular and T-Mobile that are noT-Mobile thatcell comparees.
If the end goal is to have a seamless programmable environment, the building itself should become the ultimate packaging for the IoT infrastructure, not standalone devices (just like a mainframe is hidden inside a computer or a phone).
Like everything Google does these days, the changes came about because of Google+ – specifically, the idea being that Google needs a single social layer across all its products, not standalone communities like those that existed in Reader.
