Here at the Wavefront Wireless Summits in Vancouver this week there is a ton of buzz about what will come this year and in the next 12 to 18 months. Today we discussed machine to machine (M2M) at great length and tomorrow will bring deeper conversations about partner ecosystems and enablement. I am gearing up for my session in the Business Summit about Out of the Office Productivity and am cramming the predictions from analysts, influencers, and more.
Many industry watchers who pay close attention to everything mobile have made their predictions about what 2013 will bring enterprise mobility. I’d like to pile on with one more – 2013 will most definitely be the year of the mobile app. That, in fact, is a safe prediction, and I am not the only one who has made it. A recent article at RCRWireless (“2013 Predictions: The year of the mobile enterprise app”) agrees. This article makes the prediction and offers some advice about what it means. However the article does not say why 2013 will be a good year for mobile apps. I’d like to dig into the reasoning behind my prediction.
2013 is seeing a confluence of several large technology and market forces that are completely altering the traditional thinking about mobile apps and mobile app development. Here are the key realities of mobility in 2013:
These factors constitute a “perfect storm” of conditions for prolific enterprise app development. How will you know its happening? You will know that mobile app proliferation has begun when mobile apps on the devices you carry become such a routine part of the work you do every day that you take them for granted, and when the same becomes true of your coworkers and colleagues. Just look around you and see how much time you and your colleagues spend on your mobile devices now. That’s why I said at the beginning of this blog that my prediction is a safe one.
Now it's time for me to finish my presentation and get ready some rest before meetings with technology solution providers and global business leaders that want to accelerate ideas and market opportunities with mobile.
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