Thursday, March 15, 2007
The year rich mobile apps go mass market
2007 is looking like the year for rich mobile apps to go mass market - especially the US which lags Europe & Asia 3 to 5 years when it comes to wireless access, data usage, mobile marketing & useful applications, beyond basic text message (still far behind in usage if you are over 25). A convergence of some new enablers on a content, services, client access & platform level, along with better devices, & while Apple's iPhone may or may not be a mass seller it is going to raise the bar several levels on what users will expect on a mobile device, and the availability on a mass market of some key technologies that will drive location based applications and user communities. More to be revealed in the coming months - what's the bet the next MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Tabblo, 2nd Life etc ,,, will be born from the mobile sector? Not necessarily with it's core user base in the US ...
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So I said this was the year for mobile apps to break out - here is some news on an innovator - http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070502/20070502005590.html?.v=1 - I have to declare that I am going to be part of the applications group in this company in a new role starting in May - more details to follow.
So the play will be the Sprint's, Verizon's and Att's? Or can the app be embedded at the phone level a la Nokia/Samsung et al?
The application was designed using web/mobile 2.0 framework so as to be agnostic across the eco-system - we want to provide users with a simple and seamless experience regardless of device, OS, network, mobile or web clients to share their life experiences.
What about thin-client apps - can you say iPhone? Surely, this will create a greater demand for "good" data throughput to the device if it is to succeed, but Steve has too much riding on this not to know that AT&T is in his corner.
I am interested to see what Verizon's "iPhone Killer" is going to use for apps - who needs downloads locally - it's a mobile device right?
Nothing seems to happen? What is a situation of your gypsii project?
I thought that nowadays people could already use that killerapplication.
Could you tell where gypsii is going and when we see it live?
News on the GyPSii public release will be coming very soon! If you wish to sign up for the release please go to www.gypsii.com and as it is rolled out, the company will be back to you.
www.gypsii.com goes into live into public beta
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