Fun third-party stuff: Tweetmeme's World-Cup-News.net, Cuptweets and Kosmix' Tweetbeat (see our earlier post).
The optimizations and support provided for the first-party motion tools are perhaps just too much of an obstacle for third-party stuff to really make a dent.
Like the shift from iOS 6 to iOS 7, it might be a bit confusing at first — but expect all of Google's apps, and third-party stuff shortly thereafter, to conform to the new look.
And they use a mixture of software, not just Apple's first-party stuff.
According to some reports, this is now a requirement if the manufacturer wants access to Google' first-party stuff: the Google Play store, Google's official Gmail app, etc. (But, pfft, who wants that stuff? Besides absolutely everyone who buys an Android phone).
And then there's the third-party stuff, which ranges from pretty cool to absurdly horrific.
Charge us something like £12.99 for access to the entire NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance vaults, though – even if it's just first-party stuff at first until Nintendo sorts out a royalties system for third-party devs – and people will leap at it.
A camera, a speaker and an e-ink display are some of the early ideas for modules that Google is talking about, although it says it intends to open this up to let third parties build stuff.
Another perhaps more sticky potential issue vis-a-via insurance is whether a host might be risking voiding any existing buildings or contents insurance they have by using the service and thereby opening their home to a third party (and their stuff).
