Having developed mobile applications for 6+ years. I have observed many trends in the mobile space such as 3D etc and yet, there was 1 trend that I failed to spot back when the Motorola ROKR was the mobile phone that Apple produced in a partnership with Motorola and the iPhone was just a prototype in Apple’s lab in Cupertino.
Moore’s law states that computing power will double every 24 months. But I was unable to reconcile it with the explosion of mobile and the introduction of a new mobile phone market segment called “The consumer smartphone”.
A long time ago, smartphones were the must-have accessories of high powered executives and CEOs who needed the 24 by 7 access to their emails on their mobile and devices such as Blackberry, Windows Mobile blossomed and grew by catering to this market segment
But with the introduction of the iPhone to the consumer market, this has opened up a new category of mobile users who use smartphones to email their friends, not their colleagues. Plus, with Moore’s law driving down the cost of the mobile phone processors while providing more power. Phone manufactures are now able to produce smartphones at a cheaper price and then sell it to the mass market by pricing it within their reach.
Even Blackberry which traditionally catered to executives, have been marketing their new smartphones to the mass market after realizing what a big market this is and the same goes for the other guys such as Windows Mobile etc.
Now, with the better web browsing experience that smartphones offer(Except for Blackberry which still have lousy browsers) and faster speed and more bandwidth. The possibilities for mobile is now endless, so be prepared for the mobile revolution to fully take off and consumer smartphones to be the vanguard leading the way. Therefore hang on to your seats, cause we ain’t seen nothing yet