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I'm hoping for one that you can only use if you're sitting next to the other person.

by ohyes 7y ago

jfk13 7y ago
A notepad and pencil?
- ohyes 7y ago
  That's genius, if we could upset the notepad and pencil industry, we would be huge!
  - deleted 7y ago
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reaperducer 7y ago
In my office we use iCloud shared Notes to say terrible things behind the boss' back. Bypasses the company's IT system, so it can't be restricted. And each person erases the previous message, so it can't be recorded like SMS.
- RL_Quine 7y ago
  It can be denied with a policy profile.
  - reaperducer 7y ago
    Unlikely since the sharing of iCloud notes is essential to our workflow.
kmote00 7y ago
Or, similarly, wouldn't it be cool to have a chat app that would detect people in the same geographic location traveling at the same speed. So your contacts would be the other people in the bus or train or plane that you're traveling in.
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  When I was at TomTom, they ran a contest for employees to come up with fun ways to gamify their internet-connected GPS Personal Navigation Device3s. Some wise guy came up with the brilliant idea of maintaining a real-time "Top 10 Speeders" leaderboard for every single road on the entire map. Kinda like Foursquare for speeding on local roads. No matter where you were driving in the world, you could instantly see the top ten speeds of other TomTom users who drove down that same stretch of road, and put the pedal to the metal to claim or defend your own spot on the leaderboard! That one went over like a lead balloon with the legal department. The only thing worse would be a chat app for texting while driving above the speed limit with other Leaderboard members along the same stretch of road. They also didn't appreciate my proposal for TomTomagotchi: a simulated personality on your PND that relentlessly begs you to drive it all around town to various interesting places it wants to visit, to improve its mood and satisfy its cravings. (Kind of like having virtual kids!) I'm sure there's a revenue model having drive through Burger Kings and car washes pay for placements.
smt88 7y ago
They had apps like this during the early 2010s and they bombed hard.
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  About as successful as the Portable Cone of Silence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKHBgZ_QKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKHBgZ_QKU
- ohyes 7y ago
  The timing has to be right, a lot more young people have been raised where communicating through an app is the default way of communication and actually talking to someone is really weird.

I'm hoping for one that you can only use if you're sitting next to the other person.

by ohyes 7y ago

I'm hoping for one that you can only use if you're sitting next to the other person.

jfk13 7y ago

A notepad and pencil?

ohyes 7y ago
That's genius, if we could upset the notepad and pencil industry, we would be huge!
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]

reaperducer 7y ago

In my office we use iCloud shared Notes to say terrible things behind the boss' back. Bypasses the company's IT system, so it can't be restricted. And each person erases the previous message, so it can't be recorded like SMS.

RL_Quine 7y ago
It can be denied with a policy profile.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  Unlikely since the sharing of iCloud notes is essential to our workflow.

kmote00 7y ago

Or, similarly, wouldn't it be cool to have a chat app that would detect people in the same geographic location traveling at the same speed. So your contacts would be the other people in the bus or train or plane that you're traveling in.

DonHopkins 7y ago
When I was at TomTom, they ran a contest for employees to come up with fun ways to gamify their internet-connected GPS Personal Navigation Device3s. Some wise guy came up with the brilliant idea of maintaining a real-time "Top 10 Speeders" leaderboard for every single road on the entire map. Kinda like Foursquare for speeding on local roads. No matter where you were driving in the world, you could instantly see the top ten speeds of other TomTom users who drove down that same stretch of road, and put the pedal to the metal to claim or defend your own spot on the leaderboard! That one went over like a lead balloon with the legal department. The only thing worse would be a chat app for texting while driving above the speed limit with other Leaderboard members along the same stretch of road. They also didn't appreciate my proposal for TomTomagotchi: a simulated personality on your PND that relentlessly begs you to drive it all around town to various interesting places it wants to visit, to improve its mood and satisfy its cravings. (Kind of like having virtual kids!) I'm sure there's a revenue model having drive through Burger Kings and car washes pay for placements.

smt88 7y ago

They had apps like this during the early 2010s and they bombed hard.

DonHopkins 7y ago
About as successful as the Portable Cone of Silence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKHBgZ_QKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKHBgZ_QKU
ohyes 7y ago
The timing has to be right, a lot more young people have been raised where communicating through an app is the default way of communication and actually talking to someone is really weird.