On 6/23/2010 10:24 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
but your phone and tablet almost always are only used on battery. So
basically you now have degraded behavior
all the time the user is using the device. sounds like a really bad plan
to me.
There's the bandwidth issue, which is separate - and there are codecs
that can adaptively change their bandwidth usage. But yeah, I think that
there are apps where it's appropriate to have a lesser user experience
for someone who's not on A/C.
bandwidth is 100% orthogonal. Scaling behavior with available bandwidth
(or cost of bandwidth) is perfectly legit
and based on something real.
the difference between 5 minutes and 30 minutes is not power visible to
be honest; this would be a "how am I connected" tradeoff not a power one.
And .. half an hour on all phones all the time? you're kidding ;)
Without getting into the details... the principle stands. And again, I
see the bandwidth issue as only one parameter. The key is "do less".
Just out of interest, do you see half an hour as too far apart, or too
close together? I'm having trouble figuring out.
waay too far apart. Users will not accept that if their phone is 30
minutes behind on email and twitter and .. and ..
i can go on and on, but... with devices being almost always on battery,
and your examples very visibly and annoyingly degrading the experience...
(and often NOT being about AC/Battery.... but about where the device is
at that point in time)
Meh. I guess we have different ideas about what "degrading" means. I
think the user experience you expect does change if you're on the move.
Of course, if you're thinking about a laptop, you might consider some of
the ideas here annoying. But I definitely think that the use-case when
you have a phone in your pocket or on a charger is different than a
netbook. Perhaps you're falling into "All the world's a netbook"
thinking a little?
absolutely not. In fact I think you are ;-)
netbooks are at least sometimes used on power.
mobile phones and tablets are otoh almost only really used on battery.
people tend to charge it at night when they're not using it.
people tend to disconnect that annoying wire/take it out of the cradle
when starting to use it
and when the phone is actually charging, it matters again (due to the
thermal constraints)
phone-in-pocket is an interesting case for sure, but that's an idle
case, and there is no tradeoff there to be made
realistically.
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