Mobile Applications – Past, Present and Future

Mobile Applications – Past, Present and Future

We are all acquainted on applications, these days all the operators and cellphone manufactures have a App Store somewhere or they are thinking in having one.

But where did it come from?

Well the most simplest of applications came with our early cellphones, alarm clocks, currency calculators, agendas, etc. The developers always had an eye for this particular thing. Why? Simple, they knew that in the future it would turn out to be something everyone would use. But, and this is the history on almost every innovation in the mobile area, the market wasn’t ready yet for the innovation.

In 2000 they were already talking about applications that would be linked to the internet and connection them to the most important things in our lives. As the internet connection was, until very recently, a very expensive thing, developers made funny applications for the mobile distributors to keep things alive.

The funny thing about the application revolution is that it happens in the country where the mobile industry was running late, EUA. Here the cellphone weren’t that sophisticated, the networks weren’t that advanced and you had too many operators and regulamentations. So nothing was expected from this part of the world. It was expected from Europe, where the big cellphone developers had their headquarters, companies like Nokia, Ericsson… The main reason for this was that these companies were developing cellphones for the operators and they wanted to slow things down. So innovation was replaced by “one step at a time innovation”. These created a gap between what the consumer wanted and that the developers were developing. And put many new innovations to the market on hold or waiting a better time to be released. This also created a lot a frustration with the developers that made application based on what was to come and it never seem to be coming.

So, in America, a company known for innovation and to have a fan follower list all over there world announced 3 years ago that they were launching a cellphone, one that had no rivals and one that ultimately would sake the market. They didn’t care about the operators request list, they wanted to create a cellphone based on they’re experience on the market, and they did. The Iphone when it was release was already the most waited objected in the world, next to the Harry Potter books. Its characteristics made it to a revolution and the other cellphone companies are still trying to cope with it.

One of the main characteristics of this cellphone was it was based on the internet and the platform allowed it to have very dynamic extras, like applications. Since then millions of application have been sold, Nokia launched its App Store and others followed and, even the operators did it to.

But why? Simple, more and more the applications are being design to help with out daily lives and the internet allow them to interact with our world. It allows the cellphone to transmit information we will later need, distance walked, jogging distances, our location and it also allow it to receive information we need, like twitter and other social tools. But this is not the end for this market.

Where is it going? Into our life’s.

Soon our home appliances will have a way to talk to us on our cellphone, say you want to turn your air-conditioner at home before you arrive, or you don’t know what kind of groceries you have, your frige will send you the list. Also it will enter into our cars, like when a alarm goes of, why not receive a warning in our cell? And into our offices, allowing us to almost get anything done from out cell and, not being at the office.

So this kind of content still have a lot to grow.