Did you catch Felix Krause’s announcement of his new Context SDK final week?
It’s a library that helps an app decide the perfect time to current an upsell, buying choice, or any name to motion to a consumer primarily based on what they’re doing and the way seemingly they’re to be receptive to it. It advocates presenting fewer improve prompts for higher conversion charges.
How does it know when to counsel good instances for an improve immediate? iOS units have a huge quantity of data on what we’re doing, and the library combines knowledge from among the sensors with CoreML to determine what customers are doing. Is somebody out strolling their canine or bored and sitting on their couch? Are they working late to fulfill pals for dinner with solely 10% battery or commuting to work on a bus? Individuals are far much less seemingly to enroll in one thing in some conditions, irrespective of how good the particular provide is. They’re additionally extra seemingly to enroll if it’s not the 1,000th time they’ve seen the CTA.
Learn the entire article if that sounds fascinating as a result of the put up has loads extra particulars and proof that the approach works.
This may immediately be deep into “creepy” territory if that knowledge was being despatched again to some firm’s server to be saved and cross-referenced in opposition to a great deal of different knowledge, however the SDK doesn’t request any extra app permissions and by no means sends a community request. All of it occurs on-device.
There’s something that retains my “this doesn’t really feel fairly proper” sense tingling. I feel it comes right down to a few years of listening to story after story of unscrupulous corporations doing doubtful (or terrible) issues with giant quantities of behaviour knowledge, although, slightly than being associated to something this SDK is doing. After all, nothing will cease corporations from integrating this SDK and sending all this knowledge someplace, however they might additionally do this with out this SDK. So long as you agree with the enterprise mannequin of free apps advertising their in-app purchases, I don’t suppose there’s something to dislike right here.
This concept seems like a win for everybody concerned. Customers get fewer calls to motion at inconvenient instances, and builders get happier customers who’re barely extra seemingly to answer a CTA. That sounds good to me!
For full disclosure, I do know Felix effectively and knew he was engaged on this challenge.
Dave Verwer 
