Just another day in the world of mobile…
Just another day in the world of mobile…
Platform: iOS
Customer: Fashion.HR (http://www.fashion.hr/)
Personal reference as: Consultant and Concept Manager – on behalf of NTH
App Store link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fashion.hr/id484087192?mt=8
Short description: This was an experiment, and a successful one at that. How do you create an App in a week, a full 100% beautiful native App? Using a special framework this is now possible and many Apps like this one are expected to be launched in the future.
Platform: iOS
Customer: Arqueonautas (http://www.arqueonautas.de/)
Personal reference as: Consultant and Concept Manager – on behalf of conVISUAL & NTH
App Store link: http://itunes.apple.com/hr/app/arqueonautas/id494864169?mt=8
Short description: The application is mainly used for browsing and online shopping for ARQUEONAUTAS line of clothes. Inside the app you can also find a magazine which contains the adventurer blog and shipwreck diving campaigns of Kevin Kostner and his friends.
Platform: iOS
Customer: Bosch (http://www.bosch.com/)
Personal reference as: Consultant and Concept Manager – on behalf of conVISUAL & NTH
App Store link: B2B application, distributed within enterprise, no public store link
Short description: Bosch sales force uses the Bosch application as a helping tool. Users can browse Bosch products, view videos, picture galleries and advanced specifications of the products using an easy-to-use and intuitive navigation.
Platform: MeeGo
Customer: 20 Minuten Online (http://www.20min.ch/)
Personal reference as: Consultant and Concept Manager – on behalf of Nokia & MOBILEtechnics
OVI Store link: http://store.ovi.com/content/218000
Short description: Application is used for browsing news of 20 Minuten Online, the biggest Swiss news publisher. Users have an option to report their news using the „Reporter“ part of the application.
Anyone noticed this pattern? Every time Apple messes something up, with the next software update they throw in few sexy goodies, which make people forget that they messed up and start chanting how awesome Apple is?
Fresh example is the iOS5 and iPhone 4S. The fix for the battery drainage problem comes with multi-gestures for iPad 1. WTF, what does one have to do with the other?! I am sure Apple has at least a dozen Aces in their sleeves, just waiting for the next fuckup.
Also, Siri on 4S was down and not working properly for a while, so now rumours are out that Apple is testing it for iPhone 4. What is there to test? The jailbreak community proved weeks ago that the only reason Siri isn’t working with iPhone 4 is the authentication with Apple servers, Apple doesn’t want it to work with iPhone 4, at least not until they have sold a satisfying number os 4Ses. Greedy as always…
Be sure in the future more fuckups will get covered with nice features like Siri on iPhone 4, Panoramic camera mode support, Bluetooth photo sharing (?) etc. First disappointment on the horizon is iCloud, this one will need a big, big candy because people just do not like it. However lacking MobileMe was, it was useful, it was working and it was a tool that would become very powerful in the hands of an advanced user.
iCloud is based on a very simple predicament – people are stupid. You don’t need file sync, you don’t need image sync, actually, let’s demote files to a fart in the wind, that way they can all chill up in the cloud. Seriously?! I want to have control, I want to sync ZIP and RAR files, I want to sync PSD, InDesign and MKV movies, I don’t mind paying for a service that I want to use the way I want and for the purpose I want. I want to share anything, of any size, with anyone. I don’t need a free service that syncs my own Word files for me to access it from any device. I always have my Macbook with me, I don’t need that crap.
Anyway, time to migrate to Picasa and Dropbox… 
