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I am often asked about the potential for the apps on the Play store to be harmful, and therefore make using Android devices unsafe in an enterprise setting. And I think that in the early days of Android this a perceived risk that and was often true.However the Android team have been tackling this problem […]
July 22, 2019
I have been thinking a lot about the future of mobile, and how we are likely to move away from an over reliance on that little black rectangle we carry around. There are many new developments that are coming to fruition that will allow us to greatly enhance the technology that we carry around with […]
September 7, 2017
It is commonly understood that mobile apps should have a clear focus and designed for that particular task. I wanted to say single task, but some require the ability to support more than this. Apple are very good at making this distinction, so for example the email is separate from the calendar, which is seprate from messaging, calls […]
September 4, 2017
<teaching you to suck eggs> If you have an app that your users rely on, and make good use of, then you need to ensure that you have the best possible experience. So often that experience is affected by the throughput and latency of the [mobile] network your user is connected through. </eggs> Why am […]
September 1, 2017
So earlier so I was suggesting that interfaces need to be smarter and better at predicting what I want when, and morphing themselves accordingly. I suggest that time of day is a simple way to consider how this might work. If you look at the graph below you can see that Facebook has peaks at […]
September 1, 2017
I’ve been thinking about the use of AI in apps and web sites. Currently there is a lot of effort going into the data science aspects, using AI to make sense, at a human scale, of the huge volumes of data. Separately there is a strong movement towards conversational interfaces where the AI is processing […]
February 15, 2017
I find this interesting Yes is the short answer, and it is entirely in line with other similar declines is use. We advertising in the late 1990’s had very good click through rates, and now they are infitessimal. SMS and MMS advertising had huge response rates when first used, guess what, that’s right, they are […]
February 15, 2017
ComScore have produced their 2016 US Mobile App report, and it is full of very good data and graphs on all things mobile. However I would challenge their implied assertion that mobile users are not very interested in mobile web. I think a large proportion of the decline is that the mobile web sites are […]
January 30, 2017
Stories are going around about the fact that instant apps are finally starting to see the light of day. But what are they and why should you care ? Firstly you should care because it should make a lot of actions we do on our devices much smoother and better. For example you want to […]
December 7, 2015
and of course, will they take off again anytime soon. Reports are coming on on the use of mobile payments over black , and the one everyone is quoting is InfoScout’s which shows that Apple Pay’s use on the day went down to half what it was last year, and was only used 2 in 100 […]
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August 30, 2019
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