On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:00:25PM +0900, Gary James wrote:
> > Seems a bit short sighted though - I mean,
> > wouldn't most people want their app to start up at a
> > particular time not just at regular intervals? Maybe
> > I'm missing something.
> >
>
> The only real use of having the app start up regular intervals that I
> can see is to, let's say, download stock price data to the phone every
> hour or whatever. If some particular condition that you have specified
> happens it can give you an alarm or something. Even so, this is still
> something that can be achieved pretty well with just i-mode and e-mail
> alone!
>
> What kind of app would you want to start up at a particular time?
:) My girlfriend likes to use the weather app as a kind of informative
alarm in the morning... It goes off about 7am, playing music and telling
her what to wear without ever opening the curtains...
Tom.
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Received on Fri Mar 30 06:06:46 2001