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Is the mobile design anywhere near efficient?

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    #46
    Re: Is the mobile design anywhere near efficient?

    I thought I was going to move to the mobile world but I do lot of inventory apps. The problems I have already seen with other inventory apps on a mobile device is that unless the screen is at least 14" to 15" the user has to move the screen around for every line item or they cant see everything. This has really annoyed many users I've talked with that tried an iPhone or tablet. People think they can use a web app like an inventory app on a phone are getting a rude awakening. Everyone I've talked with complains about the screen being unreadable and unusable. Web apps can function fine but the end user better have a large enough screen or they will end up dumping the app.

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      #47
      Re: Is the mobile design anywhere near efficient?

      Originally posted by christappan View Post
      So for goodness sakes, stop spending so much time and effort trying to bring down the mobile app. If you don't want to build one, just don't build one. Laugh quietly at the rest of us wasting our time and effort.
      I think that it is just good that somebody has different opinion. It just makes you think. World is full of yes yes men anyway. Different opinion is a pearl.

      This continues talk about mobile has made me think little more the hole browser applications. Lately I have spent quit a lot of time with responsive layouts but now I am interested moving (totally) to the mobile layouts.

      Today I was talking with my client about how to use web (criticizing google praising duckduckgo). He told that he uses almost just smartphone to access web. World is about to change.

      (But not trying here to sell Alpha. As long as a server deploy license is needed I will certainly not upgrade).

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        #48
        Re: Is the mobile design anywhere near efficient?

        I'm all for web development but I'm not sold on mobile. I have tried a few of our apps for inventory on a smart phone. Too small, cant efficiently access the fields with my fat fingers, have to swipe the screen back and forth to enter each count or item just to see the information I need to see. An iPad possible but it took much more effort to use the app on a tablet than a laptop. If you develop simple apps that require little input or the user does not need to see much data at a time then mobile should be the way to go. But for most business apps the phone is just to small. Heck, I have trouble doing banking on a smart phone over the web. Its just to small and I spend a lot of time making each page larger and moving the screen around to see what I need. I know of a few people who used their phone to access a web app to order something. When the order came they found out that they did not see everything on the screen and the order was not right. Each and every one of them now uses a laptop or desktop to place the order where they can see everything and not make mistakes.

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          #49
          Re: Is the mobile design anywhere near efficient?

          Originally posted by kkfin View Post
          Today I was talking with my client about how to use web (criticizing google praising duckduckgo). He told that he uses almost just smartphone to access web. World is about to change.
          Cool, but what you have is a customer who likes to scroll back and forth, up an down, etc. Your customer is in a VERY SMALL MINORITY. To each his own but to say the smart phone is used to almost exclusively access the web........................

          Fred, AMEN!!!!
          TYVM :) kenn

          Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

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            #50
            Re: Is the mobile design anywhere near efficient?

            Originally posted by forskare View Post
            Cool, but what you have is a customer who likes to scroll back and forth, up an down, etc.
            I think the hole idea in mobile browsers is that you can scroll back and forth. Because screen is small why not take advantage of the larger workspace.

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              #51
              Re: Is the mobile design anywhere near efficient?

              I'm the "new guy", but I can tell you that one of my clients has an extensive application built on ms access FE with a SQL database. The desktop runs everything from accounting to service dispatch, scheduling, on and on. The sales people were using laptops and connecting via RDP. I was able to take the quote module and replicate it using A5v11. Now they can do quotes on the iPad, and they love it. The salespeople can put together a quote, with line items, discounts, special offers etc. Print to PDF on the ipad and have the customer sign it. No need to develop a full-blown system in A5, but little things like a quote module can make your client really happy and willing to part with the money :)

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