Thomas O'Dowd (tom@nooper.com) wrote ---
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:00:25PM +0900, Gary James wrote:
> > > Seems a bit short sighted though - I mean,
> > > wouldn't most people want their app to start up at a
> > > particular time not just at regular intervals? Maybe
> > > I'm missing something.
> > >
> >
> > The only real use of having the app start up regular intervals that
I
> > can see is to, let's say, download stock price data to the phone
every
> > hour or whatever. If some particular condition that you have
specified
> > happens it can give you an alarm or something. Even so, this is
still
> > something that can be achieved pretty well with just i-mode and
e-mail
> > alone!
> >
> > What kind of app would you want to start up at a particular time?
>
> :) My girlfriend likes to use the weather app as a kind of
informative
> alarm in the morning... It goes off about 7am, playing music and
telling
> her what to wear without ever opening the curtains...
>
> Tom.
> --
> Thomas O'Dowd Noop-de-Noop!
> tom_at_nooper.com http://www.nooper.com
Hi,
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm thinking about. The way the
weather app works is you activate the app as you go to bed and it uses
the Timer to wake up at the right time. The problem is that if they
get a phone call in the middle of the night then there's a good chance
they'll stop the app from running and forget to start it up again.
Also it's only a practical solution for users with just one of
these apps.
-Randy
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Received on Fri Mar 30 07:29:55 2001