[feedhenry-dev] mobile client or mobile app

[Paul Wright]

It seems to me that to tackle the mobile market, we should embrace the 
lingua franca, and the one word that unites mobile,cell phone, 
smartphone, handys, etc is 'App'

Paul

my original draft reply:

Mondays...

Let's fix everything <sigh>

I'm not against this change, but would like to throw in a note of caution:

1. I don't think OpenShift are really pushing the term apps. Sure, 
there's a command, and even some doc references 
(https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_enterprise/3.2/html/installation_and_configuration/install-config-imagestreams-templates#creating-instantapp-templates), 
but would like to check with them before assuming that's deliberate. In 
my mind, their term of choice is Application, a bit more of an 
enterprisey term.

2. Does "Mobile Clients" solve a problem? we already have a generation 
of ppl saying "there's an app for that", do we want to embrace that or 
swim upstream? what about when there's a web ui to something, we used to 
bundle mobile and web into the term 'client app'.





On 11/27/2017 11:03 AM, Jason Madigan wrote:
> Deep thoughts this early in the week. App is quite a loaded term 
> alright, particularly in an OpenShift context, so I think Mobile 
> Client may be a clearer distinction.
>
> Looping in our wordsmith Paul who may have other ideas.
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Craig Brookes <cbrookes at redhat.com 
> <mailto:cbrookes at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Was thinking about terminology . We have been using the term
>     mobile app, but I wonder would it be clearer to use the term
>     mobile client instead.
>     The main reason for this is that app can mean a server side
>     component (in OpenShift there is the new-app command for example).
>     I think it would make a clearer distinction. Another example is
>     around the word build. When you do an app build in OpenShift it
>     normally produces a docker image and a running server / app. I
>     think using the the term mobile client build makes it clearer what
>     is happening.
>
>     Just a thought for a Monday morning.
>
>     -- 
>     Craig Brookes
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>     @maleck13 Github
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