Hi DealRow,
I didn't understand a word of what you were trying to say, but I had a
look at your homepage:
http://www.gwoof.com/Retail.htm
and I have to admit, I like the examples you give there. You state
quite a couple of creative ways to use the Android platform.
Given the time-frame you have, it is probably quite a huge task to
implement all of what you suggest. It may be beneficial for you then,
to build your closed-source product using a great open source platform
that is being currently developed for Android: It is called
OpenIntents.
The examples that you state for retail and restaurant could benefit
greatly from a central open shopping list that we are currently
developing. Imagine your customer types in "M" into your cool gWoof
application to look for the cheapest milk in near-by shops. Since you
based your shopping list on OpenIntents, many other applications on
your phone share the shopping list. For example, the "internet
auction" application may send you a notification that it has found
cheap milk to be delivered within 24 hours by some online vendor. Or
your "good health" application notifies you that you had bought too
much milk already that contains too much fat, and you'd better drink
water. Or the "nearby events" application tells you about the cow fair
that is taking place just a block away, where you can get fresh (warm)
milk for free!
I hope you see how your possibilities and the potential of success of
your application may multiply if you base your closed-source
application on solid grounding in the form of an open-source approach.
You benefit from work that others have done for free and you can focus
your efforts on user interface, usability, marketing case studies, and
so on.
Please have a look at our project home page:
http://code.google.com/p/openintents/
You are welcome to join us and help to shape the interfaces for
shopping lists and other commonly used core functionality so that your
program can make the most profit out of it.
Hope to see you soon,
Peli :-)