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11 months ago
in 2008/07/16/iphone-disposable-apps/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
@balebond i like the idea and i had a similar concept in mind, the problem i still have is that we could never tell if the user wants to DO something right now.
But hey maybe we get a small team together and start talking about this via E-Mail?
Basti.
But hey maybe we get a small team together and start talking about this via E-Mail?
Basti.
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11 months ago
in 2008/07/16/iphone-disposable-apps/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
> "For example, you’re waiting for the train and you want to know the train schedule. Yes, you can probably dig it up on the internet, using Safari, but it would be so much easier if an easy to use train schedule/trip planner application, specific to that exact station and that exact town, were to automagically pop up as soon as you enter the area and ask you if you want to install it?" <
Quite honestly? I would throw my iPhone away if it would do that every time i´m near or in a train station. I´m probably just walking by or i´m about to commute to work. Stan your idea is not bad, even though miles away from being new or unique. This is pretty much what everyone in the LBS space talks about for years. However the topic is way more complex than this. Just because you are somewhere does not mean that you want to do something. It is always about "location" and "situation". It is not given that you want to see "prices of meals in nearby restaurants pop up" every time you walk down a street. And most users would also hate the idea of not being able to access the train schedule app from home but only in the station, where in most cases i can easily find a schedule or i informed myself about which train to take before i left the house.
This is why most useful LBS services rely on pull rather than push technology and i´m quite happy with this.
You might be right with the general principle. I could see my car triggering an alarm when i have an accident sending my location and a detailed error report to my car manufacturer and or 911.
My iPhone telling me that i could eat a burger for 3.99 right around the corner while i just ate is a very stupid idea.
So next time let´s think about a really useful blog post around the LBS topic and let´s come up with some unique ideas rather than playing the same old tune over and over again.
Less hype then but a better post.
Bastian
Quite honestly? I would throw my iPhone away if it would do that every time i´m near or in a train station. I´m probably just walking by or i´m about to commute to work. Stan your idea is not bad, even though miles away from being new or unique. This is pretty much what everyone in the LBS space talks about for years. However the topic is way more complex than this. Just because you are somewhere does not mean that you want to do something. It is always about "location" and "situation". It is not given that you want to see "prices of meals in nearby restaurants pop up" every time you walk down a street. And most users would also hate the idea of not being able to access the train schedule app from home but only in the station, where in most cases i can easily find a schedule or i informed myself about which train to take before i left the house.
This is why most useful LBS services rely on pull rather than push technology and i´m quite happy with this.
You might be right with the general principle. I could see my car triggering an alarm when i have an accident sending my location and a detailed error report to my car manufacturer and or 911.
My iPhone telling me that i could eat a burger for 3.99 right around the corner while i just ate is a very stupid idea.
So next time let´s think about a really useful blog post around the LBS topic and let´s come up with some unique ideas rather than playing the same old tune over and over again.
Less hype then but a better post.
Bastian
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Christopher Osborne
Spot on Bastain.
Location is the new buzzword, and rightly so, its been slowly gathering momentum for years. However, there's a reason its called "location based services" and not "location based advertising". People are pretty fed up with the amount of advertising they have to face everyday. True, location would enable better targeting of adverts but once it becomes ubiquitous these ideas hold no water. Walking down a highstreet would involve hundreds of popups on your phone, I don't think this is how people want to enjoy the liberation of technology.
Location based services will be more about location intelligent apps that answer questions like: "where's a good restaurant within 5 minutes walking?" These are not easy projects to pull off as it requires massive datasets and routing capabilities.
My guess is that Google will dominate for a few years then smaller more innovative players will start to break through. Google hold the monopoly on online mapping data (hopefully OSM will break this in a few years), and guess what? They've been crowdsourcing the locations of businesses and everything under the sun for the last few years....
Location is the new buzzword, and rightly so, its been slowly gathering momentum for years. However, there's a reason its called "location based services" and not "location based advertising". People are pretty fed up with the amount of advertising they have to face everyday. True, location would enable better targeting of adverts but once it becomes ubiquitous these ideas hold no water. Walking down a highstreet would involve hundreds of popups on your phone, I don't think this is how people want to enjoy the liberation of technology.
Location based services will be more about location intelligent apps that answer questions like: "where's a good restaurant within 5 minutes walking?" These are not easy projects to pull off as it requires massive datasets and routing capabilities.
My guess is that Google will dominate for a few years then smaller more innovative players will start to break through. Google hold the monopoly on online mapping data (hopefully OSM will break this in a few years), and guess what? They've been crowdsourcing the locations of businesses and everything under the sun for the last few years....
Also, if I were not adverse to spam and just an app junky I could set my profile to receive uninvited notifications of local apps.. thus sorta solving your issue w/o pissing off the norm.
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