App Profile: Game Developers Conf (GDC)

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Rating: 4/5

I am so happy there is an app, finding my way around as a first time GDC attendee was significantly improved with the app. That said, I kept getting my first day of “my events” and not “latest” or even “current time” events. I understand in the “build my” why you move to the next hour, when “my events” is stuck on Tuesday though the “build my” is the easier menu to see relevant events I might want to join, easily. The SxSW app was better, and it also had issues. I realize that “when” it “where” of events is not something that is well known as early as badge purchase, letting me know though that the sessions I wanted to attend were in core, and not available on expo at the time I pre-registered, or even that there was an upgrade option until Friday was a failure in communication to customers. I was informed I could purchase individual sessions when I realized I wanted to go to core, not until Friday though did any of the orange shirts inform me I could update from expo to core. Best would be to see examples of class structures when I pre-order my badge, better would be class descriptions that are known, even if times or rooms or both are unknown. I would give the expo badge and selling me a product a 2 star, the review is of the app though, and it qualifies for 4 stars.

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Rating: 3/5

Cannot seem to remove my email/phone number from my profile. Have notifications I cannot clear. Otherwise seems ok.

SummAudio

Rating: 2/5

The app does an ok job displaying the full schedule and creating a personal schedule. There are two main reasons for my 2 stars: 1) The app drains battery ridiculously fast. I have a brand new battery in my phone, and 20-30 minutes of looking through the schedule to plan my day took 25% of my battery. The battery usage data on the phone says that it used 45% of the charge and was open for 47 minutes total today. 2) The app forces a popup ad every single time the app is opened. Due to the battery issues, I closed the app a lot and it is very annoying to have a forced ad when I just want to check my schedule.