Do you have nomophobia?
A recent article in the Evening Standard introduced a "new, peculiarly 21st century affliction" called nomophobia or "no mobile phobia," which is exactly what it sounds like - the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. Besides citing research that claims up to 53% of mobile phone users feel great anxiety when their phones run out of battery life or have no network coverage, the article also suggests ways to avoid nomophobia, such as carrying a charger at all times or remembering your most important phone numbers.
So are you a nomophobe? If you are, you're not alone. I suspect that many of us on the Google mobile team are nomophobes too!
We're up and running!
Google App Engine has been live for several days now and we're thrilled with the response we've gotten so far! We filled our initial batch of accounts within a few hours after Monday night's Campfire One. And today, we've just invited another 10,000 developers to try it out.
We're excited to see the beginnings of a developer community forming in our Google Groups! We're actively reading your posts and responding with help where we can, and it's great to see some of the more experienced members of the community start helping others out too!
We've also seen a lot of feature and bug reports on our Issue Tracker, including requests for Ruby, Java, Perl, PHP, and Fortran. Here are are some of the general areas we're focusing on right now:
- Support for more languages. We're obviously huge Python fans, but we recognize that there are other great languages out there that developers use to build web applications.
- Support for offline processing. Right now Google App Engine is great for web apps that do all of their processing in response to user requests, but what about apps that need to perform scheduled tasks or larger-scale data migration? We'd like to support those apps too.
- Support for large files. Google App Engine currently imposes a limit of 1MB on all requests, both inbound and outbound. We're interested in providing efficient support for much larger uploads and downloads.
- Billing for additional quota. During the preview release period, all apps are restricted to a set of free resource quotas. Although Google App Engine will always be free to get started, we plan on allowing developers to purchase additional resources in the future, while paying only for what they use.
Judging by the the feedback we've gotten so far, these are areas you're interested in as well--we'll keep you posted. Keep letting us know what you think about the Google App Engine and where you think it should be headed!
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