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A friend I had lunch with suggested Mobile Internet Access instead of in store machines. Cos actually if I'm buying a bottle for dinner, I'm not going to think about it 1 week in advance and order a case of 12.
I'm going down to the wine shop the day before or after I've bought my lambchops. Thats when I need a recomendation. Pull out the blackberry and get recomendations or plug in a wine I see on the shelf to see how the reveiws are.
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- Reply by kevchan, May 31, 2007.
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It would do both of those, but only one person could use it at a time (selecting wine is usually time consuming) and its costs a lot more it implement.
The instore kiosk has the advantage of cross referencing inventory.
This could be acheived through some bluetooth/wifi application installed in a store rather than a kiosk.
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3122 - Reply by Philip, May 31, 2007.
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I'm torn here - mobile access is obviously more scalable, but who actually uses their cell for commerce yet? at least a kiosk is something people are familiar with?
both are definitely on the cards - but we will have to prioritize one...
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693 - Reply by gr, May 31, 2007.
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(I wasn't asking because I disagree, but because I was pretty sure you had some good reasons.)
Mark, you've got that shiny blackberry. How's your own site look on it?
(I'll let you know about how it is on the iPhone in a month or two ;^>...)
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- Reply by gr, May 31, 2007.
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Phil: you don't need to convince some wine store to buy your product without prior knowledge if it works on a cell phone. Your users may already be using it in their store by the time you approach them, and then you point out how if they were snooth-enabled, then those users would be able to wifi/bluetooth that stores stock from the snooth kiosk into their palmtop.
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- Reply by kevchan, May 31, 2007.
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Phil, you mention "commerce" and I suppose thats the problem if ppl are pulling up suggestions on the their phone theres no real way of tracking actual sales in a shop where snooth has had a hand.
You face a similar issue on Kiosks, if ppl just look up the wine, then wander to a shelf and buy it, rather than print out the note/receipt to give to the POS staff. I assume you are sales commission based on the kiosks, or do they just pay snooth a fixed fee?
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- Reply by kevchan, May 31, 2007.
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Just snoothed on my p990i running Opera.
Doesnt quite work, those top 5 menus dont seem to appear (home, search, reccomendations et)
Search works ok, formatting/graphics needs work for mobile screens.
see M.facebook.com for a good adaptation of a site that actually works quickly on a phone
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- Reply by kevchan, Dec 14, 2007.
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Back to this old chestnut...
I think mobile functionality will become more and more important. I'm finding myself in restaurants, wine shops or just in social situations, trying to do a bit of snoothing on my P990i (crap phone), but finding it doesnt format well. Are you considering a separate simplified app for mobiles (ala google maps for mobile), or just a simplified mobile webpage (ala facebook mobile, yahoo mobile)
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- Reply by gr, Dec 16, 2007.
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I know that Mark attended an Apple presentation shortly after the iPhone's release on how to "code" iPhone "applications" (and then the community stole Apple's fire because everybody actually wanted to install things locally).
There are a few iPhone-specific things you can do (hide the address bar in Safari, some AJAX-y preloading crap), and a few websites that use them (Facebook is the canonical example... and still just about the only real one, though Apple's got a long list of mostly-useless stuff online).
So, as I've mentioned before, I absolutely agree with kev on this... BUT:
So far as I know, non-local apps on the iPhone or other devices with, say, cameras can't (easily) get access to those devices. I don't even think that you can, through a web page, uploaded photos snapped on the iPhone. Those are the features I'd want to see out of a Snooth application. I just ordered the wine at dinner, I want to go rate it, snap a picture of the bottle if one doesn't exist on Snooth yet, and upload it.
As I've said before, I definitely want to see a lighter-weight mobile version of Snooth, so that I can search quickly when I'm in the liquor store and don't remember my recommendations or want to check a review, but, absent some greater degree of openness in the handhelds, the killer version of this may have to look like pownce's application, running under WinCE, using Apple's SDK when it's released, as a Palm app for Treii (I guess that'd be the plural?).
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1279 - Reply by mark, Dec 18, 2007.
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We absolutely intend to create a mobile version of Snooth.
I expect you'll see something that's very trimmed down and focused on getting you information quickly while on the go.
