WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: user experience

Camera+ Dodges and Ducks but Apple Rejects

By | August 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

After initial rejection by the app approval process of the Apple App Store, TapTapTap managed to get Camera+ approved. Two months later and a reported $500,000 in their pockets, the app is yanked from the App Store for violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7. TapTapTap has been a successful iPhone app […]

iPad International Data Plans, Will Cost Deflect User Acceptance?

By | July 31, 2010 | Mobile Nature

The acceptance or rejection of a device or user pattern is not just dependent on great industrial design, interface and user experience -price and availability can be just as much a part of user experience. A successful product acceptance and the subsequent user pattern change depends on many factors. None can be ignored if the […]

Google’s App Store Achilles Heel, Few Apps -Eventually Few Phones

By | July 21, 2010 | Mobile Nature

Much has been made of the open versus closed environment that is apps on the Android platform and the Apple iOS  platform. One with a seeming Opensource OS, multi handset environment and the other a proprietary operating system bound to a fixed set of devices. These conversations can seem complicated and they are further muddled by […]

Google Follows Microsoft Kin, Ends Nexus One -Lessons Learned?

By | July 19, 2010 | Machine Logic, Mobile Nature

Another smartphone is added to the mobile device graveyard with the Google announcement, “Nexus One changes in availability,” a quick interpretation, the Nexus One will not be available from Google online but will be available through carrier partners, or maybe not. The real memorial is for the web store and Google’s ill fated attempt to match […]

What is the Internet and what will it be?

By | September 18, 2009 | Machine Logic

If you were to ask yourself or someone next to you at your favorite coffee shop, with wireless of course, what is the internet? What would the answer be? Most would have not thought about it much. They like what it does and they like what can do while they are connected. Most users think […]

Managing iPhone Apps Just Got Easier…

By | September 10, 2009 | Mobile Nature, Shape of Intent

There is a new update for iTunes, version 9, and for the iPhone iOS, version 3.1. There are a myriad of changes to how iTunes works with the iPhone and  iTouch, many are fine tunings and some are conceptually substantial. The iTunes store has a very new look, it is now much brighter and all items […]