What?
> Restaurant reviews? Who actually needs those except maybe on a road trip?
Anyone who likes to visit new restaurants.
Do people really choose new restaurants while out (unless on a road trip)? I can see using Yelp while planning to go somewhere with friends, but once you're actually outside the house? In other words, I don't see a use case for Yelp outside the computer, with the exception of a road trip.
None of this is true.
> Do people really choose new restaurants while out (unless on a road trip)?
Yes, very often. Maybe I'm at the pub with my partner and we decide to get dinner somewhere. I'll use reviews to find something. It's a very very common use case.
Wow, way to fill in use cases I didn't think of.
> Maybe I'm at the pub with my partner and we decide to get dinner somewhere. I'll use reviews to find something.
You go out to a bar before dinner? I suppose some people do. I've always thought of dinner as starting an evening out, or at the very least being part of a plan (eg, Show X followed by dinner at Y)
Does it matter? Maybe they wanna look for a bar after dinner then? In which case, you know, the phone is still useful.
>I've always thought of dinner as starting an evening out, or at the very least being part of a plan (eg, Show X followed by dinner at Y)
I'd suggest you look into the idea of spontaneity. It can be pretty great.
Since you tried condescending at the end of your comment: I suggest you try places that smell good from the street and not outsource your thinking to an app. It can be pretty great.
Are you incapable of escaping from your little corner of the world?
>I suggest you try places that smell good from the street and not outsource your thinking to an app.
Guess what? I can, and do, do both!
Do you remember annoying it was to use the browser on those candybar phones?
I think the browser on candybars was annoying, but it also was sufficient. Not for daily browsing, but for occasional lookups.
It seems like the phone as GPS+ is use-case you identified.
I will say though, even dumb phones have web browsers, and have for a long time. You can access Yelp over the internet on a candybar from a decade ago.