Application(s) strategy about mobile HOT 9 CLOSED

If this sounds like an option, I would like to devote some time this sprint to play with WKWebView to see what it’s possibilities for this would be and create a simple prototype.

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Hi @alloy, thanks for the thorough look into the possibilities here.

While the pros seem valid in this strategy the ultimate con is giving our 200,000+ mobile users a downgraded experience. On that note, I am fairly confident that what we imagine for a collector-focused app is much closer to what we have in eigen now and therefore I am far more interested in in migrating current eigen in that direction. The fear is loosing our collector audience who are already using eigen to power their collecting experiences.

I would hope, as you mentioned that eigen as a collecting app would cease to chase the web but instead work towards building a fully native experiences. Let's chat more today if you have time.

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Yeah, I'm of two minds on this. @alloy does a great job of listing the pros and cons that concern me, and @katarina raises an excellent point. I think this underscores the importance of chatting about the direction of our apps in general. For example, porting to Android is important, but what will that app look like? Would it be eigen as it is today or eigen for collectors?

Exciting times!

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I would say Android is important for sure but I feel less strongly about putting efforts towards it until we've really delivered on a strong mobile strategy in iOS

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the ultimate con is giving our 200,000+ mobile users a downgraded experience

Definitely agreed.

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On that note, I am fairly confident that what we imagine for a collector-focused app is much closer to what we have in eigen now and therefore I am far more interested in in migrating current eigen in that direction. The fear is loosing our collector audience who are already using eigen to power their collecting experiences.

This feels weird to me, are you thinking of transitioning the current eigen app to this? It's focus has been on exploring the art world, and I'd be really put off if I wasn't a collector and suddenly the app had pivoted to mainly buying art.

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@orta it is a tough choice but it's important from a business standpoint that we capture our collector base already on the app.

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We talked this though, and we're in agreement on the direction 👯

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