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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject: Re: Is IFTTT anything more than just a toy?
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:16:14 +0100
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On 06/04/15 14:42, Joe Beanfish wrote:

> I only had it installed for about five minutes so I'm no expert, but
> what I saw seemed that it was a bunch of social network connectors.
> It couldn't even do much of anything with the phone itself. So you'd
> probably have to write a plugin for it to do what you want.
>

That's what I'm figuring - all seems a bit pointless...

Anyone had any dealings with lightweight android app development 
platforms? MIT's app inventor seems interesting - but it's still hard to 
see how to get it to do a low level operation.