Comments on: The Killer Mobile App http://www.coyer.com/blog/2002/08/19/the-killer-mobile-app/ "Wireless Knowledge" Thu, 06 May 2010 22:03:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark McEahern http://www.coyer.com/blog/2002/08/19/the-killer-mobile-app/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Mark McEahern Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.coyer.com/blog/?p=3#comment-5 Jim, very insightful post. The title of the post is about killer app, but what you seem to flesh out is a high-level description of the platform. I'd be interested to hear your ruminations on potential killer apps. Or do we already have it? Namely: email. Jim, very insightful post. The title of the post is about killer app, but what you seem to flesh out is a high-level description of the platform. I’d be interested to hear your ruminations on potential killer apps. Or do we already have it? Namely: email.

]]> By: Jim Coyer http://www.coyer.com/blog/2002/08/19/the-killer-mobile-app/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Jim Coyer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.coyer.com/blog/?p=3#comment-6 Yeah, I suppose I do focus on the features of the platform, but in a way that's my point: that all of the different companies who are needed to make a great application for wireless lose track of the big picture and what has to go into the apps to make them great for wireless. To answer your question, I think email is a "Stage One" killer app for wireless - maybe the best one. Being able to read and reply to email from a mobile device is great, and "Crackberry" has earned its nickname. But I think there's a Stage Two out there that involves intelligent rules and filters to the type of information sent to the device. And that's something that we don't have right now: all of your email comes flooding down to your device. I take a few assumptions: - convergence of phones and PDA's won't work - people will still carry a mobile phone that needs to be small - phones won't have keyboards From here, I figure that <i>reading</i> email will be critical, as will real-time access to contacts and other personal information. Also, timely alerts (meeting reminders, birthday/anniversaries, etc). In a "Stage Two" kind of application, I think the key feature will be content filtering: you don't get all emails, just key ones you want to know about. You don't get long winded mail threads, instead you get the first 200 characters. Something like that. And that's just the begining... Yeah, I suppose I do focus on the features of the platform, but in a way that’s my point: that all of the different companies who are needed to make a great application for wireless lose track of the big picture and what has to go into the apps to make them great for wireless.

To answer your question, I think email is a “Stage One” killer app for wireless – maybe the best one. Being able to read and reply to email from a mobile device is great, and “Crackberry” has earned its nickname. But I think there’s a Stage Two out there that involves intelligent rules and filters to the type of information sent to the device. And that’s something that we don’t have right now: all of your email comes flooding down to your device.

I take a few assumptions:

- convergence of phones and PDA’s won’t work
- people will still carry a mobile phone that needs to be small
- phones won’t have keyboards

From here, I figure that reading email will be critical, as will real-time access to contacts and other personal information. Also, timely alerts (meeting reminders, birthday/anniversaries, etc). In a “Stage Two” kind of application, I think the key feature will be content filtering: you don’t get all emails, just key ones you want to know about. You don’t get long winded mail threads, instead you get the first 200 characters. Something like that.

And that’s just the begining…

]]> By: markmceahern http://www.coyer.com/blog/2002/08/19/the-killer-mobile-app/comment-page-1/#comment-7 markmceahern Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.coyer.com/blog/?p=3#comment-7 <strong>experimenting with trackback</strong> my friend jim and i are experimenting with trackback. jim, all i had to do was click my saved favorite experimenting with trackback

my friend jim and i are experimenting with trackback. jim, all i had to do was click my saved favorite

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