I kinda hoped the devices would actually serve the apps themselves. I guess a URL makes more sense though. But I wonder if it will lead to physical devices that give 404s when they are obsoleted.
Anyway, this seems pretty exciting.
Anyway, this seems pretty exciting.
The biggest problem I can see, as with all proximity devices, is spoofing. How do I know the item listed as "Bus Stop" is actually the bus stop, and not someone's malicious Raspberry Pi hidden in the bush next to it?
The same way you know that top search results are accurate for a given word/phrase. As stated multiple times throughout the introduction[1] the solution for filtering out spam will probably have an implementation similar to internet search engines.
[1]: https://github.com/google/physical-web/blob/master/documenta...
... well, everything proves that most likely, you have no clue.
1. Tap tablet to Raspberry Pi with NFC tag
2. Pi serves Flowhub IDE (noflo-ui) with the currently-running graph, ready for editing
This demo drops you directly into the source, but could easily have an interface layer first. It's just a link.