Technology flies by quickly. New paradigms crop up and just as quickly as they rise to domination, they are supplanted by the next great innovation. As application developers, we have gone from punch card apps to command line apps to desktop apps. Today however, there are two dominant platforms that have all but put the others out of their misery.
The first is the great connector…the Internet. With the emergence of incredibly responsive and powerful browsers such as Chrome and their movement to bring our entire computing experience to the web (see Chrome OS), the web is now, and will continue to be fertile ground for seeds of innovation.
The other platform isn’t as much a single platform as it is a powerful collection of platforms. With the average person creating and consuming their media, entertaining themselves, informing themselves, and connecting with others via mobile devices…the world wide mobile, is a force to be reckoned with. For evidence of this, just look down the street and count how many people are about to blindly walk into traffic, because they have their head buried in the little mini-world contained within their Android or i-device.
A few years ago, the bar for a business was to have a website. Then it evolved into having a web site with application-like qualities. Now, if I can’t completely interact with nearly all facets of your offering via my phone or tablet, I am incredibly put out, and will probably move to the next option.
So, we know that the new frontier is in the palm of the users hand, as creators it is our job to figure out how best to get our services, ideas, value add, innovation into the users hand. It is an impressive competition for the future going on, and I personally am excited to be able to see it unfold.
There are too many paths that we can take to handle in one post, so I am going to do a mini-series of posts about the world wide mobile…iOS, Opera, Android, Safari, Tablets, eReaders, Firefox ohh my!
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