Comments on: Sidekick Disaster: Bad for Users; Great for Web Apps http://eliainsider.com/2009/10/13/sidekick-disaster-bad-for-users-great-for-web-apps/ On Mobile, Tech and Running Infinity Softworks Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:40:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Micah Elliott http://eliainsider.com/2009/10/13/sidekick-disaster-bad-for-users-great-for-web-apps/#comment-910 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:29:43 +0000 http://eliainsider.com/?p=393#comment-910 Nice write-up, Elia. I enjoyed your description of the user acceptance/tolerance evolution. I’d kind of been thinking about it as starting with Flickr and people finally feeling okay with posting personal pics. But like you say, it really seems to have started earlier with online credit transactions (and maybe other things like personal blogs). Then pictures and bookmarks, and then with social networks (namely Twitter) people are finally okay with posting personal status updates (assuming they know they’re public) and letting their profiles/demographics be mined. Next health info will be hopefully making its way up too.

]]> By: Jeff Brandt http://eliainsider.com/2009/10/13/sidekick-disaster-bad-for-users-great-for-web-apps/#comment-909 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:10:46 +0000 http://eliainsider.com/?p=393#comment-909 I agree that this is a good thing and to the question has mApps went mainstream yet, NO. First Microsoft is on their third shot at mobile and it is not getting better it seams. Platforms and carriers have let anyone with any skill level build and distribute apps on their stores.

The apps stores have become playgrounds for anyone that want to play. This has cause mistrust of app quality and value with the phone users. One of our customers told me that “he has tried many of the health care apps on the iPhone Appstore and that they were all crap and what makes our app different?” I personally guarantied our product to him with a money back guarantee. Not only did he buy it but several other copies for his family and wrote a stellar review.

As a developer, I have a Computer Science degree and have been developing software for many years we need to start demanding that the OS companies and carriers start demanding higher quality from their developers.

This is the only way that the apps field will mature to a point that our work is worth more than $.99.

Jeff Brandt
http://www.motionphr.com

]]> By: chris brown http://eliainsider.com/2009/10/13/sidekick-disaster-bad-for-users-great-for-web-apps/#comment-908 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:40:53 +0000 http://eliainsider.com/?p=393#comment-908 I think that they did a great job at first but now they really need to get it together.

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