What work is being done to understand the design needs of those markets?
On 2 June 2015 at 01:57, Gilles Dubuc <gilles(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The story behind that phone is cool, but I think the
important part is the
guy's analysis. This phone is becoming popular because it solves a couple of
practical issues specific to parts of the African market at the moment.
However should someone design a smartphone specifically for that market,
focusing on battery life, I'm sure that these power bank phones would
disappear.
Thus we probably shouldn't spend energy making something specifically for a
phone like that, whose popularity might drop as fast as it rose when a
better solution to those problems appears. If we happen to have something
that works on that phone and get it on there, great. But spending too much
energy on its might be a little futile, as it might not stick around for
very long.
IMHO if we make a light app that can work with patchy network, consumes very
little power and works on underpowered phones, basically the least common
denominator, it might find its uses in those places. What I'm quite unsure,
however, is whether the UX and the content we'd deliver would be interesting
to people in that market. We shouldn't let the engineering cool factor of
making a light app be the starting point (it's very tempting!), the users
should be.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
As long as the app works on it unlike Whatsapp and Facebook.. :)
I do think it would be interesting to spend a quarter exploring a new
market to understand how the changes we make can impact our presence in
places other than the tried and tested USA/Europe etc...
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf(a)free.fr> wrote:
Le 29/05/2015 04:43, Adam Baso a écrit :
Sharing to mobile-l
On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Rachel diCerbo
<rdicerb(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:rdicerb@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Not certain if you guys are aware of this:
https://medium.com/product-notes/the-mystery-of-the-power-bank-phone-taking…
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What a great phone!
Would be nice to have the Wikipedia app preinstalled as well. If it is
not powerfull enough, the Wikipedia lite app that has been showcased
during the Lyon hackathon would be a good candidate.
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso
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