efests iphone app

[finner]

Apps won't be a lucrative market for this website, they'll be a cost that would never been earnt back - and to prove the point, I challange anyone to donate a quid to efestivals for their use to date. I won't order the Ferrari just yet.

[r0cky]

I challange anyone to donate a quid to efestivals for their use to date. I won't order the Ferrari just yet.

[JimOfTheJungle]

here...

[Toilet Duck]

It's known as a great phone for 'net use - yet you want an app. Because it's clearly not that great for net use.

[Grateful Ghoul]

The biggest problem is getting the Iphone battery to last 5 days!

Despite my best efforts of turning off 3G etc, it was useless by Day 2 of the Festival and even when I did have battery, the signal was so poor I couldnt confirm if Michael Jackson really had gone to the big Glasto in the sky

[LMD]

The biggest problem is getting the Iphone battery to last 5 days!

[In transit]

Apps may be out of date once proper browsing is enabled on phones (although as someone pointed out there are some apps, e.g. MyO2, TfL and Twitter ones which are actually better than browsing the respective websites on a computer) but there is a lot of money to be made in the meantime.

I'm going to go with Apple and Google on this one.

[dan05delaney]

i have decided i am gonna speak to ppl at uni and see if making an app will be possible for a complex website, doubt it's gonna be possible tho this website is far to complex for an iphone app

[5co77ie]

Is there any plans for an iphone app. I think it would be popular and would be willing to purchase one for a quid. What do other iphone owners think?

[Phil-itfc]

where as those of us with HTC phones would get the app for free

[eFestivals]

Apps may be out of date once proper browsing is enabled on phones (although as someone pointed out there are some apps, e.g. MyO2, TfL and Twitter ones which are actually better than browsing the respective websites on a computer) but there is a lot of money to be made in the meantime.

I'm going to go with Apple and Google on this one.

- but that "lot of money to be made in the meantime" is mostly being made by Apple and Google, and not the people creating apps. There's few people that have made decent dosh out of their apps, and this site very definitely won't.

It ultimately comes down to this simple fact: the vast majority of people who use this website would not pay to use this website. All the while that remains the case i will NOT be wasting money on creating an app.

[Gaz]

You don't need to create an app. Have a look at http://www.tapatalk.com/ Works really well for compatible forums and the IP Board version is imminent by the look of it.

[Felna]

The biggest problem is getting the Iphone battery to last 5 days!

Despite my best efforts of turning off 3G etc, it was useless by Day 2 of the Festival and even when I did have battery, the signal was so poor I couldnt confirm if Michael Jackson really had gone to the big Glasto in the sky

[1mills]

"far easier viewing experience" simply means the view is tailored to the poor screens of phones - something which won't be the case for too long as phones improve

[r0cky]

Screen resolution is an improvement that can be done. The Google Nexus One has a higher resolution screen than the current iPhone.

[eFestivals]

I do think you'll find that mobile sites will eventually decrease internet browsing, as before when you would log on your computer to check emails/ebay then continue doing other browsing, but all email/facebook/twatter/ebay etc etc are checked on the go by people on their mobiles, so for a lot of people will be logging on to use the normal internet less than before.

Only those who don't care about having less-good sources of information, which is of course a contradiction with why they'd access the net for information in the first place.

WAP was a similarly cut-down view of the net (yes, I realise it was worse in other ways too), which could have taken off if it served people's information needs - but it didn't, because it wasn't the full internet. I'm confident the same will apply around apps (even tho they're a better solution than WAP was).

[Felna]

Screen resolution is an improvement that can be done. The Google Nexus One has a higher resolution screen than the current iPhone.

[1mills]

Only those who don't care about having less-good sources of information, which is of course a contradiction with why they'd access the net for information in the first place.

[Macca3031]

My iphone battery would be gone by the Friday making the app pointless

[r0cky]

The only trouble is, while screen resolution will continue to improve and rise, screen size is still limited by what's practical to handle - so unless you want to look like Dom Joly on the train, phones will always remain the poor relation to computers when it comes to web browsing.

[In transit]

- but that "lot of money to be made in the meantime" is mostly being made by Apple and Google, and not the people creating apps. There's few people that have made decent dosh out of their apps, and this site very definitely won't.

It ultimately comes down to this simple fact: the vast majority of people who use this website would not pay to use this website. All the while that remains the case i will NOT be wasting money on creating an app.

[the_hutch_keeper]

ummmmmmmmmmmm isn't a phone a 'phone'????????

and for those peeps who just can't survive a long weekend without t'internet, faceypoke or whatever why not ask Mr Eavis to open a solar/wind powered internet café????

[Staberinde]

Apps *are* created as a workaround because phones can't currently handle to net well. If they did it well already they'd be no need to create cut-down versions - worse versions - of the same things that are on the net already.

[Ladybug-nina]

I would love to be able to use my iphone to have a quick look at this forum (only) , the way that I have a quick look at Facebook. I find the forum too small to view on my iphone. Since getting it I dont go on my laptop anywhere as near enough as I used to and this is one of the sites which I dont visit as much, even though I love it!

[cabstar]

The technology is there now for a mobile phone to browse the web and use all the software including flash dhtml and jarva. But of course the phone makers choose what the phone OS can recognise and load of the net.

Anyways... only 105 days to go