[feedhenry-dev] mobile client or mobile app

[Craig Brookes]

Spoke with Paul offline. And he thought we were referring to mobile app
through out our docs. So to clarify I meant with the context of the mcp UI
and CLI.

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Paul Wright <pwright at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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>
> 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
>> RHMAP
>> @maleck13 Github
>>
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>
>
> --
> Jason Madigan
> Engineering Manager, Red Hat Mobile
>
>
>


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Craig Brookes
RHMAP
@maleck13 Github
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