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Exactly this: I wanted to send an annotated Google Map to someone. I started whilst on a train trip and with a series of silly screenshots (using an offline ma

Exactly this: I wanted to send an annotated Google Map to someone. I started whilst on a train trip and with a series of silly screenshots (using an offline map app after having my network go up and down etc.) I got about half way done in 20 minutes. I got to my desk and restarted from scratch and got it done in about a minute. Obvious I know. My point is my strange use-case (an annotated map) was an artifact I could assemble at a desktop from pre-existing bits I already had to hand, but with (current) mobile so many degrees of freedom are removed. Unless someone has (1) identified a mass need exactly the same as yours, and (2) made an app that does exactly that you are out of luck.

CoryG89 10y ago
> Unless someone has (1) identified a mass need exactly the same as yours, and (2) made an app that does exactly that you are out of luck. While this may be particularly true of mobile right now, I feel the above statement is, and has always been, true of software in general. It's still early days for mobile, despite the amazing capability that's already there. It will get there eventually.
- organsnyder 10y ago
  Until someone releases a revolutionary new way of interacting with a mobile device, larger devices—with dedicated, larger, more comfortable input and output methods—will always be more efficient. Software isn't the issue.
- tim333 10y ago
  Possibly but there are fundamental limitations to having a small screen and no proper keyboard. I also annotated a map the other day on the macbook and have no great desire to do it by prodding the 4" bit of glass on my iPhone.
nathancahill 10y ago
> Unless someone has (1) identified a mass need exactly the same as yours, and (2) made an app that does exactly that you are out of luck. So true. And even if there was the need, and the app was made, you would never be able to find it in the app store without knowing it's exact name.

CoryG89 10y ago

> Unless someone has (1) identified a mass need exactly the same as yours, and (2) made an app that does exactly that you are out of luck. While this may be particularly true of mobile right now, I feel the above statement is, and has always been, true of software in general. It's still early days for mobile, despite the amazing capability that's already there. It will get there eventually.

organsnyder 10y ago
Until someone releases a revolutionary new way of interacting with a mobile device, larger devices—with dedicated, larger, more comfortable input and output methods—will always be more efficient. Software isn't the issue.
tim333 10y ago
Possibly but there are fundamental limitations to having a small screen and no proper keyboard. I also annotated a map the other day on the macbook and have no great desire to do it by prodding the 4" bit of glass on my iPhone.

nathancahill 10y ago

> Unless someone has (1) identified a mass need exactly the same as yours, and (2) made an app that does exactly that you are out of luck. So true. And even if there was the need, and the app was made, you would never be able to find it in the app store without knowing it's exact name.