New glasses from @warbyparker! The boy thinks I look like a librarian…could be the bun. :-)
Utility out of the box
I spend a lot of time using apps on my phone – they’re fun and specific to a task. I can buy an airline ticket from Alaska Air. I can pay for my morning Americano at Starbucks. I can run a 5K from the couch. But there are several lovely utility apps delivered with the iPhone…the basics like a calculator, a notepad, and my personal favorite the Global Clock. I do not care for the Newsstand—I suspect I’m supposed to subscribe to books or magazine or newspapers and it will become something I use, but for now I’m a fan of Flipboard. And while I appreciate the Weather app in the phone—it’s usefulness is only as an immediate check-in on current temperature of wherever I happen to be standing. Anything more advanced and I’ll open up an app I downloaded. Finally, I loved the built-in camera, but then I found Camera+…and my Camera app is no longer used to capture even simplest of photos. I do like the apps that Apple ships…I’d like them more if I could choose which ones I needed. Then I wouldn’t have the crap-tastic Newsstand taking up real estate on my phone.
And then I found this little beauty…mobile web masquerading as a mobile app. No visit to the App Store, now entering my Apple ID. Now if they could just add a little color to it…
Photograph by Maggie Steber
Opening this evening at Leica Gallery in New York: Presence and Absence, an exhibition that combines the works Rite of Passage by Maggie Steber and An Artist’s Life by Carlos Rene Perez.Click here for more information.
The exhibit opens Thursday April 18, 2013 and runs through June 1, 2013.
Beautiful.
Mobile websites pushing for app download
This week I tried to book a place using Airbnb.com and vrbo.com — from my phone. Both sites appeared in my mobile browser, but only airbnb.com recommended I download the app. I chose not to as I don’t rent often enough to download something to my phone that will eat precious memory and screen real estate.
And I think that is the inherent issue with mobile web vs. applications — consumer usage (and the metrics around said usage) should play into why a company builds a mobile website or an application or both.
Apps vs. Mobile web
I travel frequently and I’ve waited for apps to catch up — since I live in Seattle I fly Alaska Air often. Their first app version was beautiful and clean. Simple interface with mobile boarding passes, flight check-in and the opportunity to have alerts sent to you if your flight changes. Great. Simple.
Then I wanted to buy a flight — but I couldn’t use the app to buy a flight. Recently, Alaska Air released a newer version and now I can buy a flight from the app. Brilliant.
Downloaded iOs 6.something and I saw the new camera icon on my lock screen. But…what does it do?
The cat sat with this little cup on her head for a good ten minutes. #catsofinstagram
Brotblr: Our commitment as partners from this origin trip →
#coffeejourney #tobeapartner I’m sitting here at dinner with 8 other amazing partners - from store partners to regional managers and vps, partners from creative studio, learning and global coffee, and CPG - reflecting on our third day in origin in Costa Rica…talking about our inspiration and…
