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Mobile Monday … demo, demo demo

I know, it’s Thursday and I’m writing about something that went on Monday… but I wanted to let you guys know that Mike Rowehl has a great wrap up of what type of demos had gone on. I DID see someone with a video camera, I’ll have to find that guy.

I’ll be honest, I used to be intersted in mobile, until I figured out how hard it was to convey to the user how to do thing or use your application. Also the moving targets make it quite difficult to do many things. It feels like the wild wild west, with different models, different operating systems, different carriers, and different handsets. In some ways it makes it easy to innovate in it, but hard for your innovation to penetrate.

Yet the most amazing thing, is the amount of handsets that are out there and being used far exceeds the number of computers. What would we have done without cell phones? Heck even my grandpa has one… that’s just amazing! That means I think there is something there…just very difficult to get at.

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2 Responses to “Mobile Monday … demo, demo demo”

Mike Rowehl Says:
September 21st, 2006 at 10:18 am
Hey Holly, definitely very much like the wild wild west. One of the reasons I believe strongly in the mobile web is that it’s an area where those problems are less pronounced. Still there mind you, just less pronounced. And eventually once the techie folks fight it out enough with feature after feature that hardly anyone ever uses, someone with a practical focus will come along and use the 5% that’s common across all the handsets and networks and provide something interesting. Figuring out that right mix is a pretty simulating problem. Thanks for the link!
monkeynotions Says:
September 21st, 2006 at 11:20 am
Heh, very true indeed. I’m sure a study of elderly folks and the use of their phone would *really* slim down the feature set =) from a user perspective . Of course everyone one involved in mobile sees a different problem, so everyone is trying to solve so many problems… or the same problem just differently =)

Mobile Monday … demo, demo demo

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