Thread: Dangers of tending Mobile Application

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    Dangers of tending Mobile Application

    Hey Guys

    No doubt you have all seen the global chaos and frenzy
    that Pokemon "GO" has/is creating around the world. I bet
    Nintendo are loving all the focus though. It got me thinking
    about all the media reports I have read (true or not maybe)
    of people actually getting injured or almost killed trying to
    "catch em all".

    Remember a few years ago, "Flappy Bird" created a very similar
    craze. People were killed over that game... I mean for gods sake,
    it's a GAME.

    Anyway, my view is that software developers need to take a look
    at what they are creating and perhaps take a step back from the
    finished application and perhaps place barriers such as time of
    play, avalaiblilty etc.

    The fact the applications are free is not the problem, I think it's
    the general focus of people getting over addicted to said application.
    Do you think applications in the future should be more carefully
    developed to prevent such addictions overtaking personal lives?

    Just my thought on it.
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    I don't think you can develop such features in games. If you place a time limit, how many people would get frustrated and just quit? If you made it optional, how many addicted people would use it?
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    If anything, I'm more scared of how everyone is trying to put everything in the browser nowadays.

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    I think Pokemon Go is alright. People are saying it's getting kids interested in going outside or exercising, and I'm just a bit more jaded about that. I wonder what happened to people going outside for its own sake. I also hope people know that Pokemon Go is simply a starting point, when it comes to exercise.

    I'm pretty positive on the whole thing, honestly. I think society will learn some boundaries if they haven't already.

    That said I was pretty annoyed T Mobile made the data usage free. That only contributes to addictive behavior.
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    Quote Originally Posted by swgh View Post
    Anyway, my view is that software developers need to take a look
    at what they are creating and perhaps take a step back from the
    finished application and perhaps place barriers such as time of
    play, avalaiblilty etc.

    The fact the applications are free is not the problem, I think it's
    the general focus of people getting over addicted to said application.
    Do you think applications in the future should be more carefully
    developed to prevent such addictions overtaking personal lives?
    It's hard, if not impossible, to get the entertainment software business not to loiter the market. The profession itself and the industry that surrounds it too focused on cheap creativity, because it is a fact the market still responds well to it and great fortunes can be made from the most odd end products that sometimes even the game designers themselves can't quite explain. Addiction, on the other hand, is the core business of these companies. So any developer trying to bring in social responsibility into a multi-million dollar product is going to be fired and the word will be put out on the street for others to know about him. So, we are in fact screwed.

    A society decline is measured in direct proportion to the size and reach of its entertainment industry. And we are long past the returning point. We can only expect that the success of games like Pokemon Go to keep slowly degrading entertainment as an ever more mindless exercise without benefits. Or to keep intruding into people's public and private space. Pokemon Go, for instance, is proving that it is ok to point a phone camera at me while I'm walking down the street to work, or that it is ok to entertain yourself until I -- who knows nothing about the game -- do the necessary research to add my lawn to the list of private spaces on whatever pokemon go webpage that lets me do it. And it is ok to feel sorry for my neighbor who doesn't understand anything about computers and can't understand why kids keep walking over his or how to stop it.

    That's one rung on the ladder that Pokemon Go has climbed, that some 10 years ago anyone would think it was impossible and successfully argue against the notion. Slowly, rung by rung the world is becoming crazier and ........ . The entertainment industry penetrates ever more into people's lives, increases the size of its market and makes people dumber, which makes it possible to then sell worse and worse products while cashing millions for them.
    Last edited by Mario F.; 07-28-2016 at 10:42 AM.
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