Comments on: Mobile App Developers, We Have a Problem

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[...] project and start thinking of it as a separate application in its own right. Note how your application uses data and how it will perform on relatively slower mobile networks. Good navigation is essential. [...]

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:28:37 +0000

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By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Observations: Applications - October 9, 2009

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:13:09 +0000

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By: OStatic Buffer Overflow… | google android os blog

OStatic Buffer Overflow… | google android os blog — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:33:34 +0000

[...] Mobile app developers, we have a problem. Some mobile apps are creating probems, ranging from distracted drivers to battery life and cell network compromises. [...]

By: Jeffrey Belk

Jeffrey Belk — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:47:20 +0000

Not sure exactly how apps that impact the network and consumer experience are good for innovation. If an operator consciously made the same choices on how their preloaded apps behaved, they would get creamed by the press and consumers. When a company is designing a product, they have contraints in terms of time, money, resources, etc, but there are decisions that are made in the product development process that have real impacts. Waze is not even a particularly egregious example…there have been several comapnies I’ve talked to over the years whose early version imacted the ability of the handset to make voice calls…ooops! Waze is to be commended for innovation, and for trying to drive competition, but there are other considerations, as I think I’ve pointed out.

By: John

John — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:29:54 +0000

“Navteq and TeleAtlas” = NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas

By: TimB

TimB — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:39:56 +0000

@Macboy – Ethics? I think you can draw a straight line from the body of the article to the headline – “developers, just because you *can* do all this crazy cool stuff doesn’t necessarily mean you should”. There are additional considerations that the article brings out.

By: jwo

jwo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:00:18 +0000

Agree the title is pushing responsible journalism. And the point of the story is buried. But then again, the point is about hyping a start up…

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:48:01 +0000

Headlines are meant to draw readers in, especially those who might pass on this story thinking it was solely about a startup, rather than how that startup exemplifies some of the larger issues that developers should think about when creating applications for mobile devices. We draw those parallels in the lede and continue to do it throughout the story.

By: Seth Thornberry

Seth Thornberry — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:43:32 +0000

Articles like this really miss the point. New applications that push the limits of battery life and bandwidth consumption are *good* for innovation. Pushing these limits pushes the demand for these things, which incites innovations in providing better coverage and battery life. In the short term it is interesting to work around these current limitations, but if we never had any applications that needed ubiquitous broadband coverage and constant location awareness, we would never get the infrastructure to support the next generation of connected living applications. I started to say that Waze is ahead of it’s time, but I don’t think it is. I think it is helping to create it’s time. As have every great technology innovators.

By: MacBoy

MacBoy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:14:36 +0000

Nice headline, meant to draw clicks!

The headline had very little to do with the actual article.

How about using journalism ethics once in a while? Use a headline like:

“Waze crowdsources maps for mobiles, causes network congestion”

By: Cragg Nilson

Cragg Nilson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:27:17 +0000

Waze is an interesting application that shows the potential of a crowd-sourced mobile application. Leaving the battery and bandwidth issue aside, the “base map” and data that Waze uses resides in a silo – only for use by the Waze application.

OpenStreetMap (www.openstreetmap.org) is a broader crowd-source effort, with over 170K contributors around the world. OSM is the “Wikipedia” of maps, providing a rich set of base maps available world wide to application developers across web and mobile. The OSM map database is growing at an exponential rate and is already provides more richness than traditional map providers like Navteq and Teleatlas in major cities and certain European countries like Germany, Austria and Switzerland.