App Development Enhances Day-to-Day Convenience
This native app had Doextra VP, Adam, singing its praises as he showed off a variety of synced-up lists on his Droid. As just one more way the cloud is making life easier, Out of Milk reduces the usage of crumpled post-it notes and meaningless cellphone minutes with helpful task and shopping list features.
Capabilities that add to the cool factor:
- Saves grocery item entries with auto-prompts for the next time you log in (e.g., If you enter the price of milk as $1.99, it will remember it for the next time you add milk to your shopping list).
- Re-order lists by priority by pointing and dragging items.
- Cloud-based options allow you to sync back to a companion website, as well as other mobile devices (including other users - no more excuses to not finish the honey-do-list!).
- Add items to your lists on the go via voice or by scanning a bar code.
The Out of Milk app was developed by Capigami.
Becoming Part of Your Lifestyle
Native apps are essentially applications that are designed for a certain type of platform, such as iOS, Android or Microsoft. These types of apps are evolving the idea of convenience to smart phone users, as well as the way those users think about organizing their day-to-day minutae.
As of 2010, 70% of the world's popultation now has a mobile phone (5 billion subscribers), including 9 in 10 people in the U.S (via digitalbuzzblog.com). And just to give you an idea where the market is headed, Gartner predicts that $29.5 billion will be spent on app development in 2013.
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