http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/technology/personaltech/22smart.html

This article is about a bird application that identifies and tracks birds that users see within their neighborhood. There is something similar to Jen’s “21 Questions” feature on her app, and then choosing various characteristics to determine what you see like Leah’s Garden app. Audio samples are included like in Jonathan’s. But even with this full developed app the article proclaims that experts withing the bird field ,

“….none of the top birding apps offered a way to log random notes.

“You want to be able to say something unique about what you’ve seen so you can make the notes useful to you,” he said.”

“There is another serious limitation, for all birders. Many times the only thing you know about a bird is its song. In those situations, you’d need what might be best described as an ornithological Shazam app, where the iPhone would listen for the bird song and tell you the species.”

So once again developers are running into the what-ifs,  and the would of, should of, could ofs for these more advanced applications. This article just reemphasizes that applications will never be fully developed or house all of the features that its users want.