Discover the best of the web!
Learn more about Digg by taking the tour.
What Makes a Good Mobile Application Great
gigaom.com — "...what makes a good mobile application truly great? There are lots of examples out there, but what can mobile developers learn from them? Here are some common sense guidelines:"
dimmerswitch- 350 diggs
- digg it
- jasonsalas, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8one rule i try and live by: avoid doing WAP sites, if possible, use native HTML and reformat the app space with minimal JavaScript. plan to serve content to devices that have better-than-dialup-but-not-as-good-as-broadband bandwidth with varying screen real estate.
- dudettea, on 03/27/2008, -8/+0Thanks for that irrelevant comment. We really value your input.
- troye, on 03/27/2008, -1/+1^^^TROLL ALERT!
- dudettea, on 03/27/2008, -8/+0Thanks for that irrelevant comment. We really value your input.
- donkeyshow, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4needs more bacon
- megaton, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5Was this article written by a 5 year old?
The advice is decent, if you can look past its marred facade...- dudettea, on 03/27/2008, -5/+0Your ass is decent, if you can look past is marred facade...
- Celeron, on 03/27/2008, -1/+6A porn app would be a winner for sure.
- dudettea, on 03/27/2008, -2/+0Porn app? As in a media player? Yeah, those exist.
- sunshinelife, on 03/27/2008, -1/+3People are not yet utilizing SMS to its fullest, there is so much more to be done.
Look at an app like www.glimt.com, it has potential. - tj111, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1What makes a good mobile application great? The fact that people will pay $60 a month because they are too impatient to check their facebook at home.
- rampante07, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1Real mobile applications (for the mobile workforce) are done by companies like Softhand in sweden: http://www.softhand.se
- chandan333, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Saying for- [Mimic the desktop UI] and [Strip it, strip it real good] as said in the article.
Surfing Web on Mobile Is being Same experience for years now.
I want to experience someting different Now.
This article Says the same old *****.
Try some thing new/creative to help Users. - dagamer34, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1Mobile apps in general suck. Hopefully the iPhone will solve that. *Images a native Facebook app*
drooool. - cuteseal, on 03/27/2008, -2/+3I totally agree about stripping down features - with minimal screen real estate, mobile sites really need to strip down and maximise functionality in creative ways.
I recently launched a mobile portal which attempts to do this, called Tiiny.com, which is why I got excited when I read the article.
http://tiiny.com
Hope everyone finds it useful... any comments appreciated. - joeridehouwer, on 03/27/2008, -1/+3This article is purely the author's opinion. Nothing new here...
- cl2yp71c, on 03/27/2008, -1/+3Simplicity....
that is all.- Acqua206, on 03/27/2008, -1/+1I'm guessing that was supposed to be profound or something.
- g4g0, on 03/27/2008, -1/+0Apparently, no one has ever heard of an OS called Windows Mobile, which has a huge collection of native, network-independent apps.
- troye, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Opera Mobile, it can do: javascript, standard html, show your web pages exactly like on a desktop (you have to zoom to see stuff on large pages), it's pretty snappy for being run on a mobile, you can even have tabs on your smartphone! IE mobile does not have tabs, at least the last time I used IE-Mobile in June-julish of 2007.
Opera Mobile provides the best web experience on a Windows Mobile smartphone and also compared to the iPhone, so it would be smart for web devs to take advantage of that combo. - jasonsalas, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1i'm excited to see how things takeoff when Mobile Firefox comes on the scene: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/25/a-first-lo ...
© Digg Inc. 2008 —
Content posted by