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Path is been out for how long now? Flipboard? Still mobile only. Of course, that depends on what you mean by "long term strategies" but in the internet startup
by marknutter 14y ago
Path is been out for how long now? Flipboard? Still mobile only. Of course, that depends on what you mean by "long term strategies" but in the internet startup world I strategies don't tend to be that long term.
- prof_hobart 14y agoPretty certain I've got an optimised version of Flipboard on my tablet. Path I haven't got on my tablet, but there's an optimised version available if I want it. What other existing types of platform would you expect their services to be on at the moment? Flipboard for one almost certainly wouldn't make a great deal of sense as a web app. That doesn't mean that they aren't considering whether it would look good on a gesture-controlled internet TV, or on Google Glass.
- marknutter 14y agoI guess I consider tablets mobile devices. But even so, my other examples still hold and there are lots more out there who focus only on smartphones and usually only iPhones.
- prof_hobart 14y agoMobile as a general term covers most of the things that the article is talking about - Google Glass, car dashboards etc are all "mobile" technologies. If he means that wider term, then the article is even more stupid, so I can only assume he's referring to mobile phones specifically. And again, what a company has in market now bears little relationship to what they have in their strategy. As far as "new" channels, my company currently only has a phone app , but we are regularly considering where we might want to go next. And I've not yet talked to a single supplier of any phone technology who isn't at least thinking about the future outside of that one channel (and I talk to a lot of suppliers).