Two practical examples come to mind... Reports: If you are talking about something at least as large as an Ipad, then reports that top management would want to look at comes to mind.
There are any number of tools out there, that are compatible with IOS 4+ or Android or WIndows Mobile "Browsers", or what have you, that you could use to grab a real time snapshot of sales for the day. The president of the company walks in, gets his coffee, turns on his ipad, opens up a browser, and touches the link to see the sales for today, or for yesterday. How is this different, than him turning on his PC, firing up Accuterm, logging in, and viewing a green screen report of the same info? Not much, really, other than its prettier. Proof of Delivery: If you are into something that might actually make some money for the company, then think proof of delivery. For those in the delivery business... What if you could write a web interface or an app for a mobile device that would capture a signature for an invoice? Perhaps you might throw in some GPS capability and send data back to U2 about where the driver went for the day, etc. If you have 200 drivers and you could do all of this on a $200 Iphone,Android, or Windows Mobile phone, then that is a lot better than paying Motorola 5 times that amount per device for some proprietary device that was just made to do deliveries. And yes, its all a fairly large learning curve. If it were easy, then businesses would not need us... On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:05 PM, George Gallen <[email protected]>wrote: > This is what I'm asking, and not seeing.... > > Tony wants to know if there is interest to decide if it warants development > time/cost > > however, unless someone can give examples of a real usage where we > say...WOW, we NEEED that > it wouldn't be worth the expense to develop. > > It might not be that there is no interest, it just might be that no one has > given the > masses a really good reason to want to use that method. > > Which was what I was saying, if people who are using it currently with > their UV (or non UV) > give some examples of how it has helped their bottom line, or at least > quieted the Pointy > hair boss! > > George > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett > > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:22 PM > > To: U2 Users List > > Subject: Re: [U2] Pondering recent thread on compact framework > > > > And now for a dose of reality... Consider the problem with Sony > > servers > > in the gaming environment. How in the world is a smaller MV company > > supposed to keep up with all of this technology blowing in the wind? > > This technology de'jour mentality puts us all out of business, because > > there's no way we can develop all of these interfaces because someone > > has to pay for all of this - and that someone is us! Neither is there > > any way we can afford to use 3rd party GUI people, as a simple > > incomplete web-site costs $3-5K, and then it takes many hours to > > integrate their work into the technology we use. > > > > Once again, there are some specific and excellent uses for something > > like an android phone. I, personally, have a very difficult time > > reading the screen and navigating around, because navigation speed is > > directly correlated to use and I use the device very little - I do have > > life! :-) > > > > Just a thought. :-) > > > > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- John Thompson _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
