WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: Apps

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 […]

Flash on iPhone? Lookout for Some Crazy Backdoor Juggling

By | October 5, 2009 | Mobile Nature

One of the most conspicuous absences from the iPhone, other than 3rd party VOIP, is the lack of a Flash player and the content it plays. That condition may or may not change in the near future. From day one of the iPhone launch, Adobe has been determined to pry-bar Flash onto the platform but […]

iPhone Apps Pass 2 Billion Downloads

By | September 28, 2009 | Mobile Nature

It is said that customers vote with their feet, if an election was held today, the iPhone App Store might be king of the world. In just under a year and a half, the iPhone and iPod Touch customers have downloaded more than 2,000,000,000 applications from the App Store. The pace of acceleration seems to […]

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 […]

First Marco Polo, Now the iPhone in China

By | August 8, 2009 | Mobile Nature

Apple iPhone will be arriving in China by the end of 2009. iPhone’s arrival may not bring the myriad benefits of noodles and gun powder, back to the West, but will most certainly increase iPhone sales and substantially expand the reach of the App Store. As the ink of the deal begins to dry, it […]