My colleagues and I were recently introduced to this product through the Point & Find marketing team. We also got to demo it ourselves and I can say that this is far from functional or even useful in its current state. The article mentions that it "..supports category-specific... search," when in reality this is all it supports. The Yahoo directory search engine of yesteryear is the best analogy I can think of. To get information on Starbucks, for example, you would need to switch to the Starbucks directory. Also, since each "directory" is owned by the company that maintains it (i.e. Starbucks in this example), the end user must trust the data provided by that company.
We chose not to pursue a deal with Point & Find for many reasons, but the two main ones were the ridiculous cost to business owners (well over $2,000 USD per month) and the fact that it is just not a viable product. The Symbian app as well as the web-based directory tools are riddled with problems in both usability and functionality. I would like to see this become a useful tool at some point, but they have a lot of things to work out before it's ready for the general public.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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My colleagues and I were recently introduced to this product through the Point & Find marketing team. We also got to demo it ourselves and I can say that this is far from functional or even useful in its current state. The article mentions that it "..supports category-specific... search," when in reality this is all it supports. The Yahoo directory search engine of yesteryear is the best analogy I can think of. To get information on Starbucks, for example, you would need to switch to the Starbucks directory. Also, since each "directory" is owned by the company that maintains it (i.e. Starbucks in this example), the end user must trust the data provided by that company.
We chose not to pursue a deal with Point & Find for many reasons, but the two main ones were the ridiculous cost to business owners (well over $2,000 USD per month) and the fact that it is just not a viable product. The Symbian app as well as the web-based directory tools are riddled with problems in both usability and functionality. I would like to see this become a useful tool at some point, but they have a lot of things to work out before it's ready for the general public.