Smartphone App Aims to End Texting While Driving
- on 05.27.10
- Orange County Store
- 1 Comment
I was surprised to read the review on this smartphone app (Coker, 2010). SMSReplier is basically an app that auto-replies to any inbound text message that the smartphone receives. Ideally this is to be turned on before you begin driving. Well first of all, I am surprised that with the level of sophistication on these new smartphones, that they don’t have an auto-reply feature already. I have a Droid and was not able to find any feature like this on my smartphone. Second, this app developer is charging almost $10 for the app?! I wonder if the cost is so the developer will have plenty of funds for its legal defense when the first subscriber (yes you have to pay for a subscription every year) (Iconosys, Inc., 2010) gets into an accident while looking at who the smartphone has auto-replied to? In all fairness, I will say that this is an admirable endeavor and I applaud their efforts. However, when 95% of apps on the Android market are $.99 to $2.99, charging $10 for this simple app is unrealistic.
References
Coker, M. (2010, May 26). Laguna Hills Company Says Its App Ends Deadly Texting-While-Driving Practice. OC Weekly. Retrieved from http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/laguna-hills-company-says-its/
Iconosys, Inc.. (2010). SMS Replier. Retrieved from http://www.smsreplier.com/
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