That is actually why many app developers concentrate on delivering amazing value to users. When a user feels that the app shouldn’t use her location or that there’s not much value behind the app, she removes it. By doing that, they allow app creators to push notifications to their phone or to use location services. That’s why users have to explicitly opt in by simply downloading their favorite store or brand app. Apple knew that powerful and frictionless experiences might also put users at risk of being spammed or tracked without their knowledge. That means this technology is opt-in only. That is the most beautiful part of this elegant design: an app searching for a specific beacon is required. When a phone discovers the beacon and picks up the identifier, it triggers an app and the action assigned with that beacon. They anticipated billions of devices advertising their presence, thus they designed the iBeacon format to consist of 20 bytes containing a static identifier (UUID + Major + Minor)-enough to number all the objects on earth. With beacon technologies, users just need to enter a beaconified location and a pre-programmed action will automatically appear on the screen-frictionless.Īpple made this technology elegant, privacy-oriented and straightforward.
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Before iBeacon, it was possible to use QR codes and pass contextual information to the phone, but it was inconvenient: pulling out the phone, opening a QR code scanning app, focusing the camera on the code, etc. The most important innovation was removing all of the friction in user interactions.
For the first time in computer history, a massively distributed and popular consumer device such as an iPhone was able to sense micro-location information broadcast by tiny, battery-powered radio devices. It’s been almost two years since Apple launched iBeacon, its own beacon format, and kicked off the contextual computing revolution. Mobile & web apps and the future of beacon technologies In this (epic) guest post, he provides his thoughts and insights into the future of Web and mobile apps, the introduction of Google Eddystone and beacon support, and his vision for what it takes to bring digital context to the real world. Jakub Krzych is CEO and Co-Founder of Estimote, Inc. Guest Post by Jakub Krzych, CEO and Co-Founder of Estimote