I feel like people might be wary to carry their phones with them out of the house, if messages and contacts are able to be read by anyone who steals their phone. Maybe Messages and Contacts could be added to the same biometrics function as the WSB app?
What if, when you purchased an app from the store, there were a variety of extra security options you could get for an additional fee(or that a clever decker could add to an app for cheaper). These options might include things like a bio-lock, as svetlana mentions above, where the app can't be accessed except by the biometrics of the person who installed it(or a good-enough decker), or things like a database backup, that links the apps you've chosen, and paid for(either to the store or to a decker), are backed up to an account based on your biometrics, allowing you to load them onto a new phone for a nominal cost, lower than purchasing them all over again(which offers an option to make carrying around a phone loaded with a ton of apps a less risky option).
Adding Strategery or other similar apps is mostly as an option for entertainment when waiting for something, the potential of digital gambling linked to your bank account, or just to give people more reason to complain about everyone being on their phones.
Cloud data storage, by NLM!
This solves the problem of people who can't be around during certain rerun times ever and opens up more content creation consumption for people with limited playtime to be able to watch on their time/availability. It could pull from finalized and stored shows/films already in the database, though something would need to be considered for new episodes that're scheduled to play but haven't aired yet.
I'm not calling for the progia to serve as any other television/screen type device, but I know we've had people calling for an on demand option for NLM content and I think this could make this a unique reality, depending on how the game wants to say progia screens act (are they all more old nokia esque type 2000s phones or can they end up showing media).
i.e. 383-CHEX, NLM-SUXX, etc.
This got me thinking... What about some kind of biometric deadman's switch app?
If someone steals your phone, they need to do a factory reset on it to consider making it usable again. Otherwise they're locked out indefinitely... Unless they hire a decker to unlock it somehow.
This would be a good way for phones to snowball apps over time, a good way for people to get revenge (fuck you, dips and bricks your phone), and create more value for deckers.
An app that detects which bars have PC personnel active (online & in the vicinity of the bar) / NPC personnel being puppeted.
Potentially, also, a runner app.
Would be basically a cloud storage system.
A list of songs recorded from the past and present (and more added in the future) of NLM musicians to buy the ringtone of from an official app.
And then on the black market, notable songs from Mix musicians who aren't signed to NLM could be purchased.
IMO a way to go an extra step to add more preservation but also interactive options with the music created by PCs across all sectors and a fun way to both customize your progia as well as support your favorite musicians.
Just want to make it clear that we do want to set a line on what kind of apps we won't see. Things that completely replace the functioning of other items in game are not gonna be implemented after discussion with staff. For instance, replicating the usecases of the Grid-Terms through the phone is not something we are interested in.
In our cyberpunk world, you're meant to buy lots of gadgets!
Integrations and the like I think are fine, but something that completely replaces it without the payoff I don't think is.
