davewill
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The day of the press conference, the cards worked despite not being registered. Hopefully they haven't changed that, yet.
Personally, I like the PlugShare app better.lonndoggie said:If I was an iPhone user, and used Recargo, I'd submit an entry for these (hint).
walterbays said:I received my Blink card, but cannot access blinknetwork.com to activate the card or to confirm that they activated it. It looks like a problem that may affect many people. Coincident with sending the card they also deactivated my old password, necessitating a password reset. But their password "reset" page only emails you a link to their password change page, which will not function without the old password. It will not function with an old password that they deactivated. Their support line will not answer the phone due to unusually high call volume, which strengthens my belief they have locked out many people's accounts right when they had a reason to access their accounts. So, I'm left not knowing if I were to drive to Balboa Park with 49% of battery remaining, whether I would be able to charge and make it home.
Unfortunately PlugShare decided to focus exclusively on the 7% of people who use iPhone, ignoring the 11% who use Android, and the 6% who use Blackberry, and the 1% who use Windows phone. And there's the 16% who use Symbian, and the 1% who use some other smartphone. And there's the 58% who don't use a smartphone at all.jcesare said:Personally, I like the PlugShare app better.
walterbays said:Unfortunately PlugShare decided to focus exclusively on the 7% of people who use iPhone, ignoring the 11% who use Android, and the 6% who use Blackberry, and the 1% who use Windows phone. And there's the 16% who use Symbian, and the 1% who use some other smartphone. And there's the 58% who don't use a smartphone at all.jcesare said:Personally, I like the PlugShare app better.
If and when they complete their long promised Android app they will extend their reach to 18% of the market. Had they instead developed a simple web based application then all 42% of smartphone users could look up charging stations on the road and all 100% of drivers could plan a trip ahead of time on a computer.
Imagine. They claim to list over 2,500 charging stations. Had they not restricted PlugShare to 7% of the market there would be fourteen times as many people using the app and potentially listing their EVSE's for shared use, so they would probably have 36,000 charging stations.
Thanks.bsavall said:Nice rant walterbays
Gartner and Comscore.; and completely unsupported by real world data. In which present universe does Android have a larger marketshare than iphone?
Interesting. I see your Nielsen data puts Blackberry way ahead of both Android and iPhone. I think the difference is that Nielsen is reporting installed base and Gartner is reporting new sales, so Apple and RIM's head starts make a big difference. It's also striking that Nielsen reports a much lower rate of total smartphone usage than I had found.Here is data. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/iphone-vs-android/
Actually my shakier data is the percentage of people who don't have a smartphone at all. I just took the first figure for that which came up in a Google search. I was surprised it was so high. But whatever the number is, the point is that there are a lot of people without smart phones, and any crowd sourced application which starts out by locking out a majority of the crowd may not do so well.I agree that a web based system covers all bases, but don't make up data cause you regret your android purchase.
Same to me, unusable, since--as Walterbays has pointed out--like Recargo, it's also not available on Android. Neither is Carwings, in app form, but I can get to it in my browser.jcesare said:Personally, I like the PlugShare app better.lonndoggie said:If I was an iPhone user, and used Recargo, I'd submit an entry for these (hint).
walterbays said:Of the 4 charging stations at the Science Center, one disabled and one regular space were open, one was being used by another Leaf
walterbays said:The final - and biggest - reason for optimism is the attitude of San Diego's ICE drivers. Even without EV-only signs and without threats of towing, hundreds of ICE drivers chose not to park in the EV spaces.
smkettner said:Signage is probably a separate bid controlled by the park.
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