hpl123 wroteMobile first is more true right now than ever before and also applies to many business applications/scenarios and hopefully AwareIM will follow.
This is VERY TRUE and I have already come across it. I've tried to offer my consulting service as Mobile First development service, but I'm running into once issue that I have shared with Support a few months back and it's also part of this discussion.
We, as Aware developers may get excited that we can develop a browser base Mobile app that this the same as a desktop and we tell that to the end user, they don't show the same excitement.
Today's Mobile users are so accustomed to the features that their phone offers or True Native offers, that a browser app feels to them like an old generation.
For example, a Insurance agent, pulls up a client and he wants the ability to tap on the client's phone # in Aware's form and the app to dial the number for him. To him, that's very important.
He wants to be able to take pictures from an Aware form and the picture automatically gets saved in the DB.
My users, want to download a series of videos and store them in Aware app, where the app stores the video in Mobile and has a link to the mobile storage. Then they can play it from Aware app and the video is stored in Mobile storage.
A delivery man delivers a package, have the user to sign in an aware form, but the want the Aware form records the Geolocation from Sat, where the package was delivered and signed.
If you can't deliver these features, you loose the sale to do the project. Unless we can offer these basic features of the phone, the Mobile remains behind of the industry.
