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I like the idea, but I'm wondering how you get past the installation barrier. I'd rather use my phone than a credit card to pay, but finding Google/Square Wall
by bsimpson 14y ago
I like the idea, but I'm wondering how you get past the installation barrier.
I'd rather use my phone than a credit card to pay, but finding Google/Square Wallet, opening the app, authorizing the payment, and (for Google) tapping the device are way more work than fishing out my credit card and swiping it. Needing someone to download the app to get on my WiFi vs typing in a 10 digit number feels similar. You're trying to alleviate a minor pain with technology, but at least for the first use, your way is more painful.
I'd like to see you succeed, because I like the idea of community-distributed WEPs and not having to ask people to get on WiFi, but I don't know how you get past the installation barrier to build that community.
Also, how does the tablet aspect work? If I need to get my tablet on WiFi, I probably don't have a cell connection for it to make the call to lookup the WEP. Do you send it from my phone over Bluetooth? Do you periodically sync the list of known-WEPs between devices when they both have signal?
- bsimpson 14y agoAlso, I just agreed to a 404 message. Your TOS page is missing.
- niklas_a 14y agoFixed!
- niklas_a 14y agoI don't think the app is that useful if you're only using it to access just one Wi-Fi network. I think the real benefit is when you install the app on your tablet, smartphone etc and suddenly you have access to all of your friends' Wi-Fi without typing in the passwords or updating them if anyone changes their Wi-Fi password. We also support community Wi-Fi hotspots so that you can get access to Wi-Fi wherever you go. Right now the syncing of passwords between tablets and smartphones is done over Wi-Fi, so the tablet would have to be connected to Wi-Fi the first time for syncing to work. Going forward one of the top things we'd like to add is syncing of passwords over bluetooth so that if you have a smartphone that's connected over 3G and gets access to Wi-Fi you can sync that right away to your tablet.