ATS App????

I did a search and found this question asked before, but with no answer from either SO or Springer.

Will there ever be a proper android/iPhone app?

I spend 95% of my time on ATS on my phone, its just easier and more comfortable than sitting at my desktop for hours on end.

At the moment it is difficult to post anything other than a simple reply without it taking an age. I have looked at the thread which showcases your shiny new site Makeover, and if I'm honest it looks like it will be even more of a pain to use on a phone than it is currently.

I look forward to a response soon.

King

Reply to post by kingears

This idea keeps bubbling up every few months. Since ATS is driven by ads (and lately they've gotten bad when it comes to bandwidth cost for ads), how would they payfor it and maintain it? Facebook has a hard enough time with keeping their app upright and it's a pretty lame interface.

ATS mobile is OK.


Posted Via ATS Mobile: m.abovetopsecret.com

Originally posted by GreenGlassDoor
Reply to post by kingears

 

This idea keeps bubbling up every few months. Since ATS is driven by ads (and lately they've gotten bad when it comes to bandwidth cost for ads), how would they payfor it and maintain it? Facebook has a hard enough time with keeping their app upright and it's a pretty lame interface.

ATS mobile is OK.

 

Posted Via ATS Mobile: m.abovetopsecret.com

 

I'm sure they could price it at 50p/$1 and plenty of people would purchase it. thus recouping any initial outlay for the development of the app, however I'm no business expert.

If i had the skill I'd develop one myself but unfortunately I do not.

As for the mobile site, imho its pretty poor by today's standards and very limited in its capabilities.

King

I'm sure they could price it at 50p/$1 and plenty of people would purchase it

Almost no one would purchase it and they would be ridiculed for doing such a thing.

However, a free app might bring more folks to the site to bolster traffic. I have not idea, though.

Reply to post by Zarniwoop

Bolstering traffic might be a problem, as the backend of keeping the servers alive, secure, and serving has costs to it. Eventually you reach a point where, unless you bombard your visitors with ads, ad revenue just doesn't pay difference between hosting and letting people use. Then you get into things like selling user data to make ends meet, which would be the end of a conspiracy site.


Posted Via ATS Mobile: m.abovetopsecret.com

Reply to post by Zarniwoop

Yeah maybe. The money in apps is having people buy your app and then not use or minimally use your service, so the people who were impulse buying off set the cost of people who do.

As far as ATS mobile goes, I like it. I also can do curses in command line.


Posted Via ATS Mobile: m.abovetopsecret.com

Originally posted by Zarniwoop

I'm sure they could price it at 50p/$1 and plenty of people would purchase it

Almost no one would purchase it and they would be ridiculed for doing such a thing.

However, a free app might bring more folks to the site to bolster traffic. I have not idea, though.

Please elaborate as to why you would be ridiculed for purchasing an ATS app?

King

Still waiting for the official word on this matter from SO or Springer..........................

reply to post by kingears

Please elaborate as to why you would be ridiculed for purchasing an ATS app?

I meant that ATS would be ridiculed for charging for a phone app to access the site... not the purchaser. Maybe "ridiculed" isn't the best word choice, but It wouldn't be consistent with their coolness factor and most accessibility apps are free. The ad revenue seems to keep the servers running and they would risk losing some good karma by charging a fee.

Originally posted by Zarniwoop
reply to post by kingears

 

Please elaborate as to why you would be ridiculed for purchasing an ATS app?

I meant that ATS would be ridiculed for charging for a phone app to access the site... not the purchaser. Maybe "ridiculed" isn't the best word choice, but It wouldn't be consistent with their coolness factor and most accessibility apps are free. The ad revenue seems to keep the servers running and they would risk losing some good karma by charging a fee.

Ah ok, apologies for not fully understanding what you meant, thanks for clearing it up

King

Having just read this...

Bill Irvine is the CEO and visionary behind Stremor Corp. No stranger to launching startups, Bill has been the driving force behind elevating a niche user-generated community from obscurity to six million monthly unique users and significant profit.

at Stremor.

We all know Bill as Skeptic Overlord so I'm pretty sure ATS is the site in question from my quote. So I think i can safely assume that money is not the issue when it comes to the lack of development of a mobile app.

It would be nice if someone of authority could come and answer my questions..

King

ATS could even make two apps...a free app with embedded ads and maybe access only to the forums, and then a paid premium app ($1-$5) with no ads and access to the forums, PMs, ATS Live, ATS Video, and Chat. I would gladly pay!

Still waiting on the official word........................

reply to post by kingears


I'm assuming that S.O. is a little busy today, cleaning up from yesterday's "mess".

He'll answer, it may take some time though.

Have a good one.

Fingers crossed, thanks for the reply

reply to post by kingears

It's my understanding they are working on a whole site redesign that would work for desktops or mobile.

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
So here we are again, just about 3 years since we began our last redesign, and it's time to push the mothership into this decade with a completely new "front end" that's compatible with modern browsers, and much more efficient.

I'm beginning a massive overhaul of ATS so that we end up with what's commonly known as a "Responsive Web Application" -- or -- a website that works normally on your desktop/laptop, yet gracefully scales down to run like a app on your smart phone and tablet.

Thread by SkepticOverlord here.

reply to post by OneisOne



Thanks for the quote and link. Hopefully it does what it says on the tin

Still waiting on that answer.........................

Only posting so this doesn't get buried

reply to post by kingears


This is as "official" as we can get at the moment. www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by Springer


Thank you for the reply Springer, looks like I need too learn how to use eclipse and try to develop my own ATS app

Mods you can close this thread now