For 90% of what churches put in their apps, they aren't necessary and would be better served with a mobile website. When the community can actually take advantage of the unique features of a mobile (for example, take a picture of event and upload it to the church's social network), this is something that could be facilitated with a mobile *service* not simply an app. If you are doing something more specalized, for example, creating a children's game based one part on open-licensed Biblical texts, custom artwork from one of the community/church's members, and has some facility for discussion and feedback, then an app makes sense.
But, as was said above, many folks don't have an online strategy, let alone a digital one that can take advantage of mobile in such a way to make such an immersive experience in an app.
*disclaimer: I run the magazine/website Mobile Ministry Magazine and havebeen publishing since 2005 on this very subject; I am definitely biased w/a chunk of info many groups/companies are just coming into. Am always open to connect/consult.
Years ago, LG, like Nokia and Samsung, tried to push their feature phone offerings into smartphones. LG went the route of Samsug with offering several platforms, but they also pandered to carriers like Verizon who could sell a boat load of feature phones. Unfortunately for LG, while they seemed to have the capacity for making low cost mobiles, they didn't have the same penchant to move their brand out of the bargain-commodity perspective for carriers. They are so dependent on carriers in fact that LG's smartphone strategy, missing it's own OS or vertical services approach, was/is more subject to recent market changes. They would be better in leaving, unless they could reinvent themselves (webOS perhaps).
Yes, when I said "too elevated" I mean specifically that its observed as a holy book, but holy as in "set apart from anything that relaates to me because of how I was taught about the separation of spiritual things versus temporral." Makes a signifiant difference in relating to the text with that subtext in view.
That said, I think efforts ssuch as Streetlights Urban Audio Bible (thealertlive.com/Streetlights.php) will do much to help, but again, its not so much getting folks to just read the text, but to get them to meditate on it to the point of it influencing how they see the world (Joshua 1:8ish).
If smartphone shipments are the metric, then wouldn't the question on "who" isn't purchasing be the one directed to carriers not consumers? This would mean that for such a number, that it has the effect of being controlled by carrier desires for certain markets/market performance. Consumers (meaning those who purchase from carriers, whom I deem with the term customer), have an effect to this shipments number, but probably not as much as is given them with this and similar metrics.
Indeed, solid interview. As with the above poster, I will be bookmarking this. There are a few questions and answers I'd be up for pulling out and touching some more.
This much I will say, I don't buy it that tablets = post PC anymore than mobiles aren't extensions of PC concepts themselves. The PC has matured, and brought several other ages along for it's ride. What's next is indeed being explored and worth looking at from several constructs.
Very refreshing, and appreciated reading. I don't see voice as the input paradigm that others do. I see motion, re the MS Kinect. That would be the shift, and the one most applicable to the paradigm that Horace speaks of here.
Man I like folks who make me think.
There will be a lot of angst because of your post; hope you are ready for the fun that Eldar Murtazin had also participated in some weeks back.
#4 on your listing there is an interesting call, especially since Nokia had Maemo, and it was more than ripe for them to do alone as the platform they needed. If that were to happen, it would mean that one tide internally definitely didn't win against the other that was pushing org/attitude changes. Which again speaks to what worked and didn't work in Nokia's execution over the past years.
No, not the only light. But definitely a genre defining one to the point that I wonder (at times) where the conversation about Jobs's influence ends, and his legacy manifested in those who are as uniquely creative/systematic begins.
I think it's a lot telling if you (and others) can so clearly see that tech/IT is so devoid of visionaries and leadership that Jobs would be so needed for an industry. Not to say that this is something that could be curated in a classroom, but it does say a lot for the current leaders and doers if Jobs is the only light that can be followed.
Ah, yes. I remember these well; wrote a few things similar based on a few of these around that time too. Nice collection of them here. Thanks for pointing them out to me.
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