Handheld terminal devices have been around for years. But to make it a useful object more technology was required to connect data with the very business of living. The radio is an increasingly strange medium until they caught on to publically available channels. The creation of interesting content is not a technology, it is an art. So the established institutions had a head start, if only they could get a handle on the technology. The artist invariably benefits as the technology becomes a commodity but in the early days of Psion organisers and electronic diaries. That the organiser supported a decent programming language that programmed input that could then be loaded into the central server only existed locally. No wireless. The Psion organiser carved a little market out from the otherwise dull landscape of personal organisers because it had a logical language.
What is so interesting about obsolete technology that was not network aware and the current ap revolution in the mobile sphere?
It is that a certain set of logical evolutions are supported: interoperability, online access and video capability as well as voice means along with communication there is a plethora of useful goodies that could be downloaded and used for free or near free.
So what is next? What makes a mobile ap useful and how to make money from it? How to build a business with mobile aps.
Consider this: Your company gives you a smart phone. You can work on it at any time, entering data on a blue
