Apple iPhone Perfect For “Physical World Connection”

I follow the Pondering Primate everyday, which is a blog dedicated to what he calls “physical world connection” or the connection between mobile devices and the physical world in regards to things like mobile barcodes and mobile image recognition. He wrote an excellent post today outlining his thoughts on the iPhone and the enormous potential it has with physical world connections.

As he outlines, since the iPhone is connected to the iTunes store at all times, it’s perfect for purchasing things, and redeeming directly from the iPhone itself. As third party application developers get creative with the SDK, apps for barcode recognition and image recoginition will be soon to follow. He mentions an example where a man at an airport was able to have his ticket barcode scanned directly from his iPhone screen to allow him on the plane, which proves how potent the iPhone can be for such an applicaton.

Products and services can be offered through the itunes store directly on the iPhone. Things like airplane and mass transit tickets can be purchased and delivered straight to the phone, and redeemed directly from the screen.