Immobile Apps

Immobile Apps:

One of the most painful things we did when developing Glassboard was ban ourselves from Wi-Fi for a week. I live in an area where cell coverage is really spotty, and using our app without a fast connection was eye-opening and humbling. I spent the next week rewriting huge chunks of the app so it would better handle poor (or non-existent) network connectivity.

(Via Nick Bradbury)

Good reminder for minimizing dependence on connectivity. I watched my family members go berserk at the Gator Bowl last Monday when cell coverage was spotty and they couldn’t post pics to Facebook from their iPhones. It seems like the FB app could queue those up instead.