How important are mobile internet and mobile applications?
Posted by admin | Under Internet Applications Friday Feb 19, 2010Like on a cell phone. Actually cell phones are the only good example anyone can give. So they should call it…. cell phone internet or something.
How important is it? Is it going to overtake laptops and desktops? Is it going to die? Should we be developing web sites and applications now?
Are people only ever going to want smaller and smaller? Is it even practical to do things from a mobile device?
Several pundits and any number of wireless phone company’s are betting that smart-phone-based internet will grow faster than any segment.
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The reasoning goes something like this. Everyone is more likely to get a phone first, especially in the 3rd world. If the phone also offers good access to the internet then why bother to move up to a computer?
For information appliance type issues this seems logical. But until a good voice activated way to "type" is created its going to be a disaster for text related applications.
Several pundits and any number of wireless phone company’s are betting that smart-phone-based internet will grow faster than any segment.
The reasoning goes something like this. Everyone is more likely to get a phone first, especially in the 3rd world. If the phone also offers good access to the internet then why bother to move up to a computer?
For information appliance type issues this seems logical. But until a good voice activated way to "type" is created its going to be a disaster for text related applications.
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NPR probably Marketplace maybe Future Tense
Eventually, the size of mobile devices is limited by two factors: IO and battery. In other words, the device needs to be big enough so I can input values and see what the device outputs. And the batteries need to be of a certain size to hold a charge that is sufficient.
That said, of course, the time may come when we will be able to interface with technology via thought, it will respond to us via all our senses, and it will be powered by biology.
For now, there is strong demand for mobile applications. As higher-end phones with "real" Web browsers become the norm, the demand for mobile-enabled Web sites will decline.
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