Nike+ GPS Brings Accurate Tracking and Social Media Bragging Rights
Nike+ GPS is a study in appropriate technology. The first upgrade that long-time users of the Nike+ GPS app will notice is that the iPhone is now doing what the iPhone has been able to do for a long time: tell where you are. Runners tend not to want things in their shoes other than their feet and socks. Nike initially ignored this, insisting that you have a gizmo in your shoe talking to satellites and then telling your iPhone about it second-hand. Now your iPhone talks to the satellites and then talks to you. Nike also allows your iPhone to convey motivational messages from celebrity jocks. Some users find this motivating, I suppose. Others feel that Lance Armstrong may not, in fact, be impressed in their newfound ability to run seven miles, and therefore find it annoying. Fortunately, you can also rely on a variety of computer voices to give you motivational messages. Well, that’s the twenty-first century for ya: anybody but someone you know is supposed to be your social network, right? (…) Read the rest of Nike+ GPS Brings Accurate Tracking and Social Media Bragging Rights AppCraver.com, 2010. | Nike+ GPS Brings Accurate Tracking and Social Media Bragging Rights | Best iPhone Apps | Best Free Apps
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