Comments on: My Mobile Day by Mark Curtis, CEO of Flirtomatic http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/02/my_mobile_day_by_mark_curtis_ceo_of_flirtomatic.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Smith http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/02/my_mobile_day_by_mark_curtis_ceo_of_flirtomatic.html/comment-page-1#comment-216104 Ben Smith Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:58:13 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/02/my_mobile_day_by_mark_curtis_ceo_of_flirtomatic.html#comment-216104 <em>There’s a lot of complete tosh written about location based services which is based on compelling sounding use cases (“Hey! Carlos lands in a strange city and needs to buy a pair of boots before booking a nice restaurant recommended by locals….”). These usually star fictional road warriors with more money than sense and poor organisational skills.</em> Hear, hear! Absolutely. This is why I'm so dubious about the recently-announced <a href="http://www.garmin.com/nuvifone/" rel="nofollow">Garmin Nuvifone</a>... the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtD4USzpoLI" rel="nofollow">promo video</a> follows this script exactly and it just doesn't feel realistic. <em>Ben Smith's last blog post..<a href='http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/02/confirmed_o2_have_16gb_iphone_329.html' rel="nofollow">Confirmed: O2 have 16GB iPhone £329 [updated]</a></em> There’s a lot of complete tosh written about location based services which is based on compelling sounding use cases (“Hey! Carlos lands in a strange city and needs to buy a pair of boots before booking a nice restaurant recommended by locals….”). These usually star fictional road warriors with more money than sense and poor organisational skills.

Hear, hear! Absolutely. This is why I’m so dubious about the recently-announced Garmin Nuvifone… the promo video follows this script exactly and it just doesn’t feel realistic.

Ben Smith’s last blog post..Confirmed: O2 have 16GB iPhone £329 [updated]

]]> By: Antoine of MMM http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/02/my_mobile_day_by_mark_curtis_ceo_of_flirtomatic.html/comment-page-1#comment-216083 Antoine of MMM Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:01:40 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/02/my_mobile_day_by_mark_curtis_ceo_of_flirtomatic.html#comment-216083 This is really good. I like to hear folks outside of my own mobile sphere and how they use mobile-anything. That being said, user flow (in the software and hardware) and user interface interactions (service, hardware, software, and need) have always been those things that drive usage in any technology. What I'd like to see is that more companies think on the scale that Apple did and think ecosystem instead of just spoke in the wheel. <em>Antoine of MMM's last blog post..<a href='http://mobileministrymagazine.com/2008/02/history-of-bible-software.html' rel="nofollow">A History of Bible Software</a></em> This is really good. I like to hear folks outside of my own mobile sphere and how they use mobile-anything. That being said, user flow (in the software and hardware) and user interface interactions (service, hardware, software, and need) have always been those things that drive usage in any technology. What I’d like to see is that more companies think on the scale that Apple did and think ecosystem instead of just spoke in the wheel.

Antoine of MMM’s last blog post..A History of Bible Software

]]>