Ghirardelli Chocolate Sweetens Its M-Commerce Taste
Written by Evan SchumanOctober 1st, 2009
Among the torrent of retailers and manufacturers jumping on the Mobile-Commerce bandwagon, almost all are focusing on adding capabilities to the M-Commerce direct Web experience. But Ghirardelli saved its creativity for a standalone mobile application. It's iPhone app, for example, taps into the phone's database—including the address book—to accelerate checkout.
The site—delivered from Digby—also seems to need a little work. It didn't seem able to actually access that database data, forcing us—during a test of the site—to have to type in full E-mail address and name three times (that's annoying, even on an iPhone). It also crashed four times during 30 minutes of testing.
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Is there really an improvement between a mag swipe and contactless tap if multi-factor authentication is required?
-Ed
