Am Mo., 16. März 2020 um 21:33 Uhr schrieb Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com >:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:21 AM Orges Leka <orges.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For the getting enough people to use it, I think word-of-mouth should > work, > > as it would help those who use it, plus it reduces the chance of physical > > contact, so there is a win-win situation in using the app. > > > > Maybe if someone from the media promotes the app, this should boost it > also. > > In order to be usefully able to predict how many people will be at a > location, you'd need an appreciable proportion of them to be using > your app. Let's say you accept a 5% saturation (which is pretty low - > if only 5% of people use the app, there's still a LOT of uncertainty > in the estimated figures). Do you think you'll be able to get to the > point of having 5% of *all shoppers* in an area to start using your > app? That is a HUGE number of people to start using an app, and even > then, it would only give a low degree of confidence. > > To the early adopters, your app is close to useless. That means word > of mouth isn't going to be very strong. It's something that depends > entirely on already having lots of users. > > Following your reasoning, then radar detection apps / wikipedia / facebook, which crucially depend on user generated content should not work.... > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Herr Dipl. Math. Orges Leka Mobil: 015751078391 Email: orges.l...@googlemail.com Holzheimerstraße 25 65549 Limburg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list