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The future of phones looks like Yo
- ggchappell 12y agoThis looks to me like yet another attempt at repackaging Push, which was widely touted to be the Next Big Thing some 15 or 20 years ago, and then promptly died a quiet death when the users wholeheartedly ignored it. Companies love the Push concept, since, when a UI is built on top of it, what the user sees & does is driven by the company, not by the user. But, strangely, users wanna do what users wanna do. Now, ordinary people have been getting Push notifications on their devices since the first phones appeared in homes over a century ago. It works, in certain very limited contexts, because doing one thing that a friend wants you to do (answer the phone, read an e-mail, swipe a Yo, ...) is great. People like it. Getting a continuous stream of things to act on, when you want to use your phone for something else, is a different matter. Or might I be missing something?
- dannyhakimian 12y agoThe entire Yo platform is opt-in. Therefore, the user, not the company, is in the driving seat. Yo never pushes notifications from the company side. Only users can decide which services they wish to subscribe to from the Yo Store (yostore.co). In addition, unsubscribing is just as easy. So ultimately, the platform allows 'users do what they wanna do'.
- dragonne 12y agoI think it comes down to multitasking. The notification systems of phones enable it, while the primitive launchscreen/app switching system gets in the way. Homescreen widgets can have the same function, but they're much less discoverable to users. Aside from Firefox I interact with most apps on my phone through Android's notification pulldown these days.