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It's revolutionary because: - Sharing you location is a very basic need in communication (don't think Google Latitude on smart phones, think 90.7% of mobile ph
by asmosoinio 15y ago
It's revolutionary because:
- Sharing you location is a very basic need in communication (don't think Google Latitude on smart phones, think 90.7% of mobile phone calls including the question "where are you?", globally, everywhere)
- Landmarks is a concept that has evolved to solve this; Well known places that can be used to communicate location. And they fit the text based communication perfectly.
- Traditional maps, which can be seen as a competitor, lacks in a few major areas:
→ How do you send a map? SMS is the global standard of communication, you can't SMS a map
→ More than half of the people in the world can't read maps. At all. These people still understand the local landmarks.
→ Good maps are not available everywhere, and will not be anytime soon as traditional maps are expensive to make
So revolutionary in quite a different way than BBM or iMessages.
(edit: formatting)
- nachteilig 15y agoSure, but it doesn't seem like your company's offering solves any of these problems _well_. Smartphone solve this problem already by letting one send contact point (such as a location from the Maps app on iPhone) over mms. For a majority of messages it seems like your product mostly eliminates remaining characters.
- asmosoinio 15y agoDid you try the app? If you did: Where are you located, how did you find the local landmarks? What would you improve in the app? I agree that if (1) the receiving device is a smartphone, (2) there is map data available for the used area, and (3) the users knows how to read maps, sending a location link with MMS works well. Or a http- google-maps link with SMS, that gets opened in Google Maps at least in iPhone and Android so works pretty brilliantly too and doesn't cost the price of MMS. I think we have pretty much proven that landmarks in SMS is a killer feature for consumer vehicle tracking with Tramigo (best selling GPS/GSM tracking device), and in that use simplicity is the key: plain SMS, no need for data connection or anything else than just a plain GSM phone. So we are trying to expand from there.