Comments on: 44% won’t bother using mobile data again http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/07/44_wont_bother_.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:01:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/07/44_wont_bother_.html/comment-page-1#comment-254 Mark Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:41:24 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/07/44_wont_bother_using_mobile_data_again.html#comment-254 44% I think is conservative. I think that most people wouldn’t bother again with an app if it wasn’t easy to install and didn’t work first time. Some of the blame for the install part has to be laid at the phone manufactures door. The number of small changes here and there between phones of supposedly the same operating system level is amazing and it makes it very difficult to make a standard app for a large number of phones. Also, the large number of hoops to jump to get installer files to work on any phone (Symbian, I’m talking about you!) means that you can spend as much time messing about with creating the damn sis file as you did writing the app. I’m beginning to think that there is some kind of conspiracy to make this as difficult as possible to ramp up support costs. Please, please for the life blood of the industry, make things simpler, it really wouldn’t be hard…. 44% I think is conservative. I think that most people wouldn’t bother again with an app if it wasn’t easy to install and didn’t work first time. Some of the blame for the install part has to be laid at the phone manufactures door.

The number of small changes here and there between phones of supposedly the same operating system level is amazing and it makes it very difficult to make a standard app for a large number of phones.

Also, the large number of hoops to jump to get installer files to work on any phone (Symbian, I’m talking about you!) means that you can spend as much time messing about with creating the damn sis file as you did writing the app.

I’m beginning to think that there is some kind of conspiracy to make this as difficult as possible to ramp up support costs.

Please, please for the life blood of the industry, make things simpler, it really wouldn’t be hard….

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