Padmasree Warrior’s Bits at the Edge blog has been relatively quiet for the past couple of months. She made up for it with a couple of interesting posts this week – with the one on Mobile Software particularly catching my attention.
Any post that starts out “The next decade is about the Mobile Revolution” has got to have something good to say!
Here are some of Padmasree’s key points, but I recommend you read her whole article:
- “One of the big challenges while dealing with mobility is – How do we deliver a compelling user experience when each device is a platform, each network is a platform and each spatial domain (home, work, car, etc.) is a platform?”
- “The industry approach to mobile software and applications is causing ‘Platform Disturbia’.”
- “First, there is fragmentation. We have multiple devices with different UI’s, different form-factors, different operating systems and different flavors of Java.”
- “The second issue is feature overload.”
- “The third challenge is to avoid monolithic programming. By simply extending the PC approach onto the mobile device, we get a sub-optimized user experience.”
- “Today, with mobility, we have the need for the ultimate context sensitive device.”
- “We want the device to anticipate the information we need and figure out the quickest way to get it.”
- “Clearly as applications go mobile developers have to think differently – Is the app itself a service that exists somewhere in the network cloud? or something you should architect right into the device?”
- “The mobile world is a huge and divergent ecosystem where innovation needs all of us to be both visionary and pragmatic – so that we can move to Platform Utopia!”
Good stuff!