Comments on: The year in mobile apps: Where we’ve been, where we’re going

By: Scott Kolman

Scott Kolman — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:36:40 +0000

Thank you Erica for your insight. The growing adoption and interest in voice controlled applications presents a good opportunity to provide value to both the enterprise and the end user by using voice to simplify navigation and search. It is important to consider voice as yet another way users can seek out the information they need or to make it easier for them to take action. Ultimately, a user may end up using a combination of search methods including type, touch and talk during a single interaction. And it doesn’t stop there. Most important is to understand the user’s intent and to present them with a narrow set of choices that address their specific needs.

By: serpentium

serpentium — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:42:21 +0000

love how you think… i very agree with the idea of “local” app point. I have some idea about this…wanna chat? :-)

By: serpentium

serpentium — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:40:05 +0000

love your HyLoMo concept…I seriously think will blow as soon more people spend their time on this business concept (http://postmodernview.com/2011/12/28/hylomo-is-addictive/)

By: Rich Q

Rich Q — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:45:51 +0000

Yeah, you gotta wonder about the moderator if this goes through!

By: Rich Q

Rich Q — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:43:38 +0000

I think you will see two App store types emerge: one is a locally-oriented store, such as SaratogaAppStore.com, which will include some broadly used National Apps like Yelp, which identify local places to enjoy and also local apps like the newspaper apps or similar. The other will be subject-oriented apps, such as GIS or geolocation app stores, or sports-information stores. In many ways, we still haven’t evolved from brick and mortar thinking, if we aren’t purely price-point seekers, we attempt to identify expertise or familiarity within a market and are willing to pay for it or exclude other choices in order to have better knowledge. If the experience in a given focused App store is better, people will frequent it more and might even pay a registration fee or similar in order to get the best of what they want.

By: tim jones

tim jones — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:22:41 +0000

Siri is a non-starter, it’s like the 2011 Ping- utter failure. Fewer and fewer people are interacting with devices through voice, it’s rude and distracting.

By: M

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:37:58 +0000

Thank you Apple for starting the “App revolution” and fragmenting the web. You have brought us back 10 years. HTML5 and Mobile Web – let’s go!

By: Vladislav Rakov

Vladislav Rakov — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:24:50 +0000

It’s not so expensive and hard to create apps since there are web services like snappii.com They do their utmost to help customers without programming skills make complex apps for business.

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:10:05 +0000

Gotta love spam!

By: David Singer

David Singer — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:13:14 +0000

In the mid-90s I spent more time in desktop software than in a browser. Then browsers and the web caught up and my software has dramatically declined. New devices, new software, same outlook.