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The Age of Cell Phone Apps

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jone:
Most of the men on RWD are in their forties or older.  Most of the women on RWD are in their thirties or older.  But I think that we have to be prepared to embrace technology that is trickling up to those age groups from the younger generation.

I now am a member of Instagram, Viber and SnapChat.  The number of Apps that I use from my smartphone is growing each day.  Sometimes, when I am waiting for a meeting I can check my phone to see the latest prose our our forum.

Are we now needing a phone app that would run RWD?  Would people use such a phone app, for reading, if not for posting?  How about keeping up on Chat?

I hope that as time goes on we will be able to interest a new generation of RWD users.  To do that almost mandates that we have some form of App for iPhones and for Android.

What are your thoughts?

Steamer:
That makes good sense. Is it difficult to do?

jone:
There are 'canned' app programs that interface.  The more 'canned' they are, the less functionality they have.    But I now respond directly to people through my cell phone approximately 30% of the time without a computer or tablet.  That percentage is increasing daily.

My inquiry is whether people are interested and whether such apps will degrade or improve the service.  My own opinion is that such an app driven program could launch our forum and increase our usage.

Slumba:
I would welcome the following improvements

1. Ability to use chat on my Android phone - the page will load and will work, but the interface ends up being very clunky as the web page does not resize / reflow.

2. A more mobile-friendly template for the main site - again, it basically looks like the desktop version of the site, but do to the screen size it will reflow oddly.

You can look at the "Twitter Bootstrap" based web themes, to see how they handle everything from big full-HD screens on desktops, to mobile-friendliness, on the same page.

Larry1:
I almost always use a laptop to read, post, and chat. It's much easier to use than my phone, especially when posting and chatting.  The only times I use my phone for the forum are when I'm out someplace without my laptop, and then I only read the forum.

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