Mobile applications will be the technological battlefield of the near future. In what is arguably the fastest growing niche of the wireless communications marketplace, applications proliferation has become an “exponential growth” phenomenon. And as more companies, social networks, web properties and marketplaces release more applications, their competition must also develop massive quantities of mobile apps simply to stay viable.
And while it is impossible to dictate perfectly the areas of the most growth and technological advances in the mobile apps landscape of the near future, there are some trends which have nevertheless revealed themselves. Let’s take a look at the 5 of the top mobile apps trends which will carve out the most profitable mobile market niches moving forward.
#5 – Metered Data
The days of the all-you-can-eat data plans will soon be a thing of the past. In the foreseeable future you and I will pay for what we use, much as we pay for our household utilities. While this may scare some users of mobile devices, it will create massive competition between carriers, content owners and service providers, and provide excellent opportunities for the value shopper.
#4 – Mobile App Stores
It seems that everyone wants to own their own mobile applications marketplace. And you can’t blame them. If company XYZ sells an XYZ cell phone and you must get your mobile applications from the XYZ store, they maximize their revenue. Don’t look for this trend to slow down anytime soon.
#3 – “Works Everywhere” Mobile Apps
Even young children are now attempting to access their favorite apps and games on their parent’s laptops, tablets and smartphones, and asking “Why doesn’t this work?”
In the future, a mobile app is going to have to work on any and all devices, or go the way of the Dodo bird. If you don’t understand the Dodo bird reference, think Betamax video cassettes and Phonograph records.
#2 – Mobile Business Apps Explosion
Consumer apps stores have exploded everywhere, and have been hugely successful. However, we are in the early stages of the enterprise, or business apps explosion. Considering the high end dollar figure that apps makers are able to charge in comparison to a consumer app, and it is no wonder that this is the growing focus in the mobile apps world.
#1 – The Next iOS
Apples iOS operating system is built to work specifically on all Apple iDevices. The newly released Google Android Honeycomb 3.2 operating system promises the same multidevice functionality. This is the wave of the future, and tech companies who do not release a single operating system that functions on all devices across all forms are going to be scraping the bottom of the technological capital gains barrel.
