Software and eCommerce

This week we discussed hardware and software, and how hardware is the actual components of a computer but they are pretty useless without the software which tells the computer how to work. My recipe ipod would rely on software for sure. It would need an application in order to run at all. The application would probably be set up like itunes since that is what my idea is based on. It would probably need two programs actually, one for the computer so that the recipe ipod could hook up to it, and another for the recipe ipod itself. The recipe ipod would need software in order to tell it how to read the recipes, how to find the recipes, how to understand the verbal commands from the user, and how to save/ move recipes based on how they are tagged. The user would be able to assign recipes categories, so that if one night they want Italian they can just look though that folder (haha it would be cute to call those chapters instead of folders, just like they are playlist on the actual ipod). The computer would need to be able to do the same things, as well as knowing how to convert downloaded recipes into something that the recipe ipod can read.

Last week we discussed eCommerce and that got me thinking about selling recipes online. It would be hard since there are so many good ones out there that are free. But I was thinking that a celebrity chef could be asked to think of some exclusive ones that could be sold in the recipe store for maybe a $1. Demo videos could be added, you could have dictionaries for ingredients, and maybe there could be a way an app could be developed that could be sold telling people what wine parings went with certain dishes. A deal could even be made to let people buy episodes of cooking shows that would come with the recipes (which is like when you get a music video on itunes you get the song too. You don;t have to watch the video to listen to the song). I feel like there are a lot of ways to make money off of the recipe ipod besides selling the program and device.

Ok that's it for this week. Thanks for reading :)