Ondrej Holzman Applications Pick it up? I have been using it since December and although I've only run it about once since then to report a number, it's become one of the more useful apps that definitely has a place on my iPhone. Pick it up? namely, it works with iOS to notify you when an unknown number calls. It can now directly block annoying calls.
Czech developers have prepared a significant novelty for version 2.0, which is available in the App Store. So far, the application has worked Pick it up? just mark an unknown number and evaluate if it is, for example, telemarketing. However, you can now set that if an annoying number calls you, Pick it up? will automatically block it.
Database Pick it up? has three evaluation options for numbers: negative, neutral and positive. If you decide that you do not want to receive negative or neutral numbers at all, you can activate the PRO function for free and you will have peace of mind from unwanted calls.
The developers initially marked call blocking as a PRO function also because they asked for an additional one-time fee of 3 euros for it, but finally after a few weeks of testing they decided to keep this new feature free, or for 2 euros (53 crowns), how much does it cost Pick it up? in the App Store. Therefore, until the release of the next small update in the application, you will come across buttons and information that were prepared for payment and unlocking of the PRO function.
From the first version already differently in Pick it up? the possibility to evaluate reported numbers, specific names of banking institutions and above all another 10 thousand numbers in the database has been added. Version 2.0, in addition to the mentioned blocking, also brought the possibility to upload an unknown number to the application directly from the call list.
Who already the application Pick it up? uses, certainly perceives its usefulness. I myself see a negative number on my iPhone at least several times a week, and the investment of two euros was clear. And if you would prefer not to bother with such phone calls at all, just press the button and you will have peace of mind from them forever. Pick it up? download in the App Store. In addition, a Slovak version is also available Pick it up? with Slovak numbers.
So it really bothers me that they rewarded all the initial customers with another inapp purchase just for call blocking. I'm glad I don't need this, but I take it as a small setback.
It's stupid that it also blocks the Czech Insurance Company... It's a pain when someone like me forgets to pay the obligations and they call him in a friendly way that they need to be paid otherwise the insurance will cease to exist...
That's right, these blockers are potentially dangerous. I have no control over such a blacklist = eighty solutions. No one can assure me that the number will not get there, because there is nothing to do there. It is an objective objection and the article should draw attention to it. Personally, I see more of a business creator behind it than a useful assistant.
In the application, the user can choose whether he wants to block only numbers from his own database, or also from a third party's database. But it wants to know something about the app before I start playing smart. You're going to be a freak as I watch you.
Well, but when I choose only from the "list" of all databases, then I can block it directly in the iPhone and I don't need another application and I don't have to pay for it at all. Unfortunately, this is an app for notorious defaulters who don't call any "foreign" numbers. I just wanted to try it out, and today I had to mark it as a telemarketing call from the gas company's customer department, not some provider of "cheap" gas supplies. Unfortunately, my number is and must be on the Internet, so I simply can't resist telemarketing, that's why I initially tested the app, and unfortunately it sucks. The idea is great, the execution too, but the uncontrolled database killed it. It's just my opinion, I'm not forcing it on anyone.
If you were so surprised that I caught your eye in the next discussion, which will probably be the time since you "followed" me :-D ... then I'm blowing the ball :-) Better not to discuss then, not everyone will agree with you on everything .
And as you have already been answered, if I use my own database, I don't know what I should have an application for. It's probably needed for smart people like you, I'm just playing on smart devices, I'm fine with the iOS function :-D
I'm looking forward to seeing what else you reveal about yourself, then it's a nice series of things. You can't think critically, you're not able to read the text to the end and understand it, then as soon as you turn around and expose yourself like a little fagan, go on, then you're entertaining me.
The bottom line is not to make your phone number available anywhere on the Internet.
The second stage is to tell telemarketing callers that "you hereby consent to any further use of your telephone number and any other personal information of yours". By law, he's not allowed to bother you anymore. Yes, they have providentially already given the number to their other sister telemarketer before the call, where you then have to say the same thing when she calls. But it's not an endless struggle. No one calls me like that anymore and I don't need a call blocking app. All the more so, as others write here, when a phone call that could be in your interest could be blocked.
I understand that I'm not a 'businessman' looking for an opportunity in every phone call, and the phone is generally a waste for me, but I do it this way: if I don't have the number saved, I don't pick it up. End
There are times when this is not an ideal solution.
I know and I agree
What's the problem with saying goodbye to an agent after a minute? It's good assertiveness training.
Shouldn't the ad be marked as a commercial article?
I think that you can tag basically every article like this, because every article actually promotes something.
In December, a celebratory report about something as original and unusual as "pick it up?" was published on basically all journalistic websites, everywhere the news was published in one week, although all the editors claimed that it was not a paid advertisement. There are several other apps with the same functionality that are much older and more sophisticated and have a larger database of numbers. Even so, there was not a single word about these larger competitors, but the unknown and at the time not very full application from the article was still being promoted. Now the update is out and suddenly there is another article about it. So why do the authors ignore the other apps and promote this one like that, if you don't think it's advertising?
If they advertise for free to a friend, then OK, but then let them write about it, they don't write about other apps and they don't write about their updates at all. It was precisely this "subtle" imposition that dissuaded me from downloading and paying, and I preferred TruCaller, which doesn't have to impose itself so shamefully. And after such reports, I don't think this website is objective at all.
I am following the whole case surrounding the application. I'm also a developer and it's hard at times. A person is working on something, but he should actually be doing it for free. I'm not saying that the developers took the ideal approach (it's hard to explain to users), but that's how I understand them. Unfortunately, from the perspective of the review on the App Store, it would probably be better if they stopped using the application, or if they released a new application "Block it" :)
I think that users should realize that there cannot be an application in a market like the Czech Republic or SK that an ordinary individual developer will develop for a long time and will only want to pay once (if we are talking about an amount of, say, 2 euros). Nobody can pull this off in the long run. After a while, everyone has an app, and then it's not worth anyone's time to invest in the app, because there's really nothing to be gained from it. If the application is to be maintained in the long term, there is a subscription or a similar approach as chosen by the authors. Both variants are not very popular among users.
Personally, I am in favor of creating quality regional applications in the Czech Republic as well. Those who want will buy, those who don't will not. Some will sizzle, some will get over it. Anyway, don't get discouraged and keep developing ;).
I understand you, but it is more complex. When you write "users should be aware", unfortunately users don't have to be aware of anything about themselves, that's not how the market works. The whole thing is mainly about which product is charged by whom. What a good product for a significant group of people to pay for. It is up to the entrepreneur to convince those people. And when it comes to flat-rate, such a SaaS application and its business model must be thought out all the more. It is not easy to succeed in the market, so not everyone does it and most people are employees... but at the same time, in the case of a freelance developer (and in general in the "virtual" business) there are fewer obstacles than in most other fields, if only because it can be built with zero on the account, which is of course an absolutely terrible possibility nowadays. It's enough to go with zero in your account and try to open a restaurant, and at the same time, you don't have to incur a debt of millions right at the start and without any certainty of return on investment. So there's no need to keep track in online business, really. In any case, everyone who tries to create something on their own has no way of knowing about it, that path is simply never lined with roses, not everyone can conquer it and it is necessary to reckon with it. A bit of luck also plays a role in that. But if I don't succeed, it's not because people didn't understand that I needed money for development, but because the product simply wasn't worth the money to people, or because I couldn't sell it. And if I'm successful, I'm doing well and I don't have to be bothered by some sputtering, which will always be :-)
I didn't think every user should realize this and do charity. But the one who swears could think about it. Of course, I'm not saying that users should be happy to pay in this case :). On the other hand, they purchased the app with the understanding that it will alert them to harassing numbers. If, for example, the application stopped doing this, I understand that everyone would be cursing. But no one wants money for bug fixes, and this is a new functionality that no one bought the app with (or with the promise of being able to do).
Otherwise I agree with you ;).
I've been using Truecaller for years, which 1. is free in the basic fully functional version, 2. works worldwide and 3. allows you to edit the blacklist (I had a similar problem with the fact that some smart guy put UPC in the blacklist and they didn't contact me, number I removed it from the blacklist and there are no problems). I could also pay for the PRO version, but the functionality of the free version is enough for me (actually, I'll admit that I didn't even look up what PRO offers). Anyway, I won't try this promoted app for two reasons: 1. I don't like too much promotion, 2. There are much better solutions out there for free for the whole world