Onteca

This week Jon Wetherall from Onteca (http://onteca.com/) came in to set us our 2nd question for the research module. I thought that Jon was a really cool guy and had a lot to say. His background is mostly in developing games so pretty much the whole presentation was based around this. I enjoyed the presentation because I've never really had a talk on game development so it was a new experience for me. It made me realise how fierce the competition is in the gaming industry.

It seems almost unfair after Jon explained, that so many people seem to demand free apps in the smart phone app world. People will happily pay for food or takeaway but then become judgemental when asked to pay 69p for an app, it doesn't make sense to me, although I myself admit I am guilty of it. My worry is that what if I buy an app and then don't like the app, at least when I buy a burger from Burger King I know I'm going to like it. Maybe its just the risk of spending money on something that you don't know much about.

After Jon's talk he set us our question which is displayed below.

I think this whole idea is really interesting and is a potential question I might be in favour of! The whole talk interested me as well as the question!