I'm going to sound harsh but please don't take it the wrong way. Take it for the literal words.
This has to(almost) be the worst user interface I have ever seen.
I can understand the Yes/No but if a user says No I do not have a smartphone, you STILL need to show them your product.
Otherwise you're alienating a possible future customer, and more importantly you're leaving a bad taste in someone's mouth and I'm going to go tell 3 friends who are going to tell 3 friends. You understand the rest I'm sure.
Now that's just showing off. Still it's hard to deny Autodesk is good at what it does, I'd love to know just what they have in store for this acquisition.
If the author of this blog post reads this then if I may, I have a few comments, and everyone else should take note as-well ;)
"When they talk about how they live to program and never leave the lab"
THEY ARE BORING.
I LOVE programming, however I also LOVE playing with my 2-year old, playing poker with the fella's, practicing origami, watching movies, working on my (admittedly horrible) art skills.
I know exactly where you are coming from when you say that you are worried about your programming skills not being 'up to snuff' but trust me, it is a small price to pay for having a life that is fun and enjoyable. It's these people skills and life skills that will make you more-rounded, and I'll be frank when I say that the more-rounded you are, the more likely you are to have fun, and the more you have fun the more it will show. And the more it shows you enjoy life, the more people/bosses/hiring managers will want to hire you to work around them.
It isn't always the technical skills, most of the time it's the soft skills that make a difference. So practice your knitting, and definitely practice the Japanese. And next time you are asked about what you have as a hobby, be honest. It will impress.
1st, As someone who never got to experience an ultrasound of their daughter do to being deployed, I think this is really a great app. I can only imagine how happy it will make people to easily send ultrasound scans to one another. Really a great idea here.
2nd, It would be interesting to see if commercialization of this would destroy the need for this service in the health-care industry.
lol, I think this is a parody. Just something a bunch of nerds got together and threw together and is being taken too seriously. Meh just my opinion though, it very well might be for real.
An interesting idea however from what I've seen it's rather difficult to get professors away from the paper-textbook. Even in more technical fields where having the information online would seem more /plausible/ it still faces the dinosaur of education change.
Wow what good advice.