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Personally, I think that 4sq should have taken up the acquisition offer that it supposedly had. No matter how much they try and innovate and launch new feature
by unohoo 16y ago
Personally, I think that 4sq should have taken up the acquisition offer that it supposedly had.
No matter how much they try and innovate and launch new features, the premise of 'checking in' is forcing a user behavior - and sooner or later, checkin fatigue is going to set in. Just like most other shiny things, the shimmer wears off real quick.
- brk 16y agoI agree. Not to mention that for many places the whole check-in bit a moderate hassle. EG: Panera Bread. Go in to get a coffe and a bagel in the morning. Take out phone, launch app. Oops, can't connect. Panera has free wifi, but I have to open the browser on my phone and check a little box and hit submit. Go back to the app, let it figure out where I am. No, I'm not at Baby Gap (next store over) at 7AM, I'm at Panera. Finally check in. And then... nothing... kind of anti-climatic really. Meanwhile, I'm juggling credit cards and rewards cards and a drink and a bagel with the cashier. If I'm lucky, I might get to be Mayor and get $1 off or something, which equates to earning about 2 cents for every checkin. I played with 4sq and some of the other location services for a while, but just never got any value out of it proportionate to what I put into it time-wise.