"TMP Smartphone App" Topic

Well I don't have a smartphone so it would be useless to me.

What would it do, exactly? I access TMP on a tablet and find it works fine.

I can access TMP perfectly well on my smartphone. While people moan about how "antiquated" TMP is, the lack of massive client-side ding-dongs makes it very accessible on pretty much any platform with HTTP.

What etotheipi said.

Let's worry more about debugging TMP, being consistent in the "rules", and focus on gaming.

Can you start TMP 4.0 first?

Giggle…we can't even get a post-1990s interface and feature set for the current incarnation of TMP (even with all the supporting memberships).

Yeah, we can get it right after 4.0 comes out… sooooooomeday. Sheesh.

Other: I would download & use it, so it sounds good. However, the "traditional" method of using the internet site on my phone already works well. I wouldn't give it a high priority.

Rick

haha-
That is funny. I do appreciate self-depreciating humor . -Oh you were serious ???

Other: only if it was better than the site itself and no worse.

Giggle…we can't even get a post-1990s interface and feature set for the current incarnation of TMP (even with all the supporting memberships).

My thoughts exactly.

TMP looks great on my smartphone. No use for any app.

I don't use any apps on principle. Most don't work and I can't see them on a phone anyway.

Well first off one would need a smart phone, which is something that I will never own.

Phones are only as smart as the people that use them! There is NO SUCH THING as a smart phone.

What is a smart phone?

Giggle…we can't even get a post-1990s interface and feature set for the current incarnation of TMP (even with all the supporting memberships).

Propose something specific on the TMP Polls board, see if the membership wants it.

Hmm.. nice selection of 'Get off my Lawn' Luddites around here.

Hard enough now when you have a choice between carrying a ton of coins, phoning an automated system, or using the smartphone app to pay for on-street parking.

It's only going to become more prevalent. And there's no use pretending it won't, and it's coming faster than most people think it is.

It's going to get very difficult for y'all, when you aren't able to order adult nappies, or Walmart 'Dentalkind Pap', without using the app for delivery by semi autonomous vehicle.

Let alone accessing all services from tradesmen, medical services and the gummint…

Khusrau
you seem to not be able to distinguish sarcasm and laughter at the original poll question from actual views .
And then you add to it by infantile attempts at humor.

Perhaps if the poll question was put into perspective for you ,for example :
"Would you like your new car to have air conditioning/"
Now just because you cannot afford a new car ,does not mean that you shouldn't answer the poll. Should a car company even have to ask that nowadays ? asking consumers if they want a technology that moats already have is ludicrous .

Thank you for thinking of us "luddites" in the future ,but I will just do what I do know -Pay an uneducated, unemployed person to get the things I need – And NO I will not hire you ,but if you ask nicely I will recommend you to "The Road Home"

ll The Editor of TMP Fezian 05 Dec 2016 10:16 p.m. PST
Giggle…we can't even get a post-1990s interface and feature set for the current incarnation of TMP (even with all the supporting memberships).

Propose something specific on the TMP Polls board, see if the membership wants it.

That's your job. Not ours.
If ever there was something that did NOT need a poll, its that. That's "housekeeping".

'Propose something specific on the TMP Polls board, see if the membership wants it.'

Can we propose TMP 4.0? ;-)

grtbrt, you couldn't afford me.

Just out of curiosity, Where do you think all the main street stores are going to be in 10 years time? Virtually all gone is where. Just look at what has happened to all the FLGS and hobby stores. That's just the first symptoms of a transition.

In advanced economies like South Korea and elsewhere, for example I can get off the (automated) train at the station, select my dinner from the virtual supermarket wall and it will be delivered by the time I get home.

In a much shorter time than you anticipate, automated robot delivery systems will replace truck-drivers, AI & robot servers will replace so many of the mid range administrative and sales roles that you will find plenty of unemployed people. Whether they have a bank account, to get access to the automated purchasing systems required might be doubtful. This stuff isn't 10 years away, it might be as low as two or three – in China, the AI bots published in their marketplace are being created at the rate of 2000 a week. Wearables, enhanced or augmented reality, the internet of things, ubiquitous connectivity and increasingly powerful and capable devices are going to change the world beyond recognition.

You simply don't see what's coming, and it's coming a lot faster than you anticipate. In my job I get to tell CEOs which of the roles they currently employ will no longer be there in the very near future.

I hope those people find new roles in a completely different economy, but I suspect many of them will simply end up on the scrapheap. I saw the same thing happen in post industrial UK.

The rest of us who can't change are going to be as much use as a Farrier in a world of internal combustion engines (which are on their way out.. various European countries are already phasing out non electric vehicles by 2020-2025) – mechanics are already going the way of the Dodo, as cars are a collection of modules managed by electronic systems that can report telemetry in real time.

That's the reality. Simply putting your head in the sand won't make it stop.

Khusrau,
LOL-that is funny . You and I are in so very different economic spheres -and I am quite positive that you are nowhere near mine. unless of course you are one of the approx. 18k Australians that are. In which case we are unlikely to attempt to afford each other

You have absolutely no idea whether I anticipate or what I see coming. Nor how many are on my payroll to do just that.

As someone "that gets to tell CEO's " I would have thought that you would have learned not to make assumptions without facts to back them up -but there you go …
And using a Farrier as an example is not a good one – A good farrier commands a decent income (One I know has an income over $150,000 USD US & percentage of winnings from his horses). If economies continue the way they are currently going the more market there is for niche skills.

Glad I didn't become a Farrier then, the pay-cut would have seriously affected my lifestyle. Fine continue to be obtuse. You know full well that for every Farrier, or dyer, or fuller that exists today, they are the exception, and that hundreds of thousands of their colleagues simply don't exist anymore.

You are also making some serious assumptions about what I do, who I talk to, and I really should have updated my location, but I don't usually bother when on a contract consulting overseas.

I do know full well what you were referring to and indeed they are the exception. But they still exist in some capacity .

No more than the serious assumptions you made about myself .

Actually -you were the one that mentioned who you talk to.

As to what you do – not positive (but have a vague idea based on some of your statements here and elsewhere)But I don't really care as it doesn't impact me.

Yes, I did base the income assumption on your location – But I think that the relative relationship is still accurate.

Gee, just what I always wanted: To be trolled 24/7.

grtbrt – ok, I shouldn't have made any assumptions about you. Fair call. But the reality is that there are a lot of supposedly smart senior people,with MBAs, running multi-million dollar organisations who don't realise they are the frog in the pot and the temperature is already 98 degrees.

The real challenge is how many organisations, public and private, will be overtaken by smarter public expectations, smarter competitors, or simply fall behind to the point they are seen as dysfunctional.

Khusrau,
Fair enough – I shouldn't made assumptions about you either .
Indeed that is the reality- A MBA in no way is a good indicator of ability to look to the future -in some ways (and fields) it is the exact opposite.
At least here in America there is the view that if you have an MBA you are a wonder child . last year there were 250,000 people enrolled in a MBA program and 100,000 were awarded ..

I tend to think that a sizable percent of organizations will need to undergo fundamental changes to their way of thinking and doing business to be able to survive . But you can see most are merely rearranging the deck chairs and the Senior leadership are more interested in setting themselves up ,than in setting the company up for the long haul .