At 12:00 PM 3/30/01 +0900, you 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?
Preloading image data or something time consuming. It takes around ten seconds
or more with connection overhead to load a 10K gif file for example. i-mode
connection
setup time is annoyingly slow.
Now if they could just speed up the applet startup time!
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Received on Fri Mar 30 06:36:05 2001