Where's the UIQ Labs?
Saturday, 22. September 2007, 15:44:25
Before an application is officially made public and commercial, normally, the
industrial practice is to made it available and label it as "beta". Regardless if it's for mobile or desktop.
For example, Google labelled most (if not all) of it's products as beta. Look at GMail or Google Docs or Google Reader, they are all brewed and graduated from Google Labs.
Nokia, the numero uno cellphone company in the world, also brewing applications in it's Nokia Labs. For example, recently it released an application for S60 3rd Edition called Conversation - enabling SMS threading natively, an application which i think should be included by default in all smartphones, Symbian and non-Symbian. I dont want to talk about SMS threading, that's for another topic.
UIQ application developer or most importantly, UIQ device manufacturers like Sony Ericsson (the owner!) and also Motorola, should have started doing something like this as a showcase of uiq's flexibility in bringing high quality application to the masses. Call it UIQ Labs or UIQ Betalabs or whatever, the philosophy behind it is to give users more value and tease them about the future.
Anyone out there can shoot this blogpost to the UIQ people, will all means, do!
What do you think folks? Shouldn't us UIQ users ought to receive more interesting future stuff for our beloved UIQ smartphones?
industrial practice is to made it available and label it as "beta". Regardless if it's for mobile or desktop.
For example, Google labelled most (if not all) of it's products as beta. Look at GMail or Google Docs or Google Reader, they are all brewed and graduated from Google Labs.
Nokia, the numero uno cellphone company in the world, also brewing applications in it's Nokia Labs. For example, recently it released an application for S60 3rd Edition called Conversation - enabling SMS threading natively, an application which i think should be included by default in all smartphones, Symbian and non-Symbian. I dont want to talk about SMS threading, that's for another topic.
UIQ application developer or most importantly, UIQ device manufacturers like Sony Ericsson (the owner!) and also Motorola, should have started doing something like this as a showcase of uiq's flexibility in bringing high quality application to the masses. Call it UIQ Labs or UIQ Betalabs or whatever, the philosophy behind it is to give users more value and tease them about the future.
Anyone out there can shoot this blogpost to the UIQ people, will all means, do!
What do you think folks? Shouldn't us UIQ users ought to receive more interesting future stuff for our beloved UIQ smartphones?
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aqualung15 # 24. September 2007, 08:43
Shutting your developers away behind closed doors and ignoring the prolific online community will spell certain death for any technology in today's world.
Another good example of how to do it right is the Opera Mini Labs - fully open to feedback. That's what drives and polishes software that people can and want to use.
Hopefully the new incoming head of SE Mr Komiyasha will make the appropriate changes .
Antonio # 24. September 2007, 11:41