DISQUS

burning the bacon with barrett: 10 Mobile Predictions for 2009

  • Mike McDowell · 11 months ago
    I'm excited to see things kick off with 2d codes (or M-Tag codes - whatever!). I think we can get really creative with how to use these in the future.
  • Sachendra Yadav · 11 months ago
    Palm Pre: Please add one more guy to the mocking list ;) although I'll me more than willing to eat my words if it does well, such an awesome company that went so wrong... I hope they make it

    Couple of my predictions:

    1. LBS will still not be able to make headway although even last year was touted as the year of LBS.

    2. Nokia will start loosing market share, this will be a bad year for them

    3. Android will start gaining ground, not a whirlwind like iPhone but a slow and steady winner in the making.
  • Phil Barrett · 11 months ago
    Thanks for the additional predictions Sachendra!

    What do you think the barriers are for LBS to take off?
  • Sachendra Yadav · 11 months ago
    With the technical challenges more or less resolved, I think the biggest challenge for LBS is user acceptance (which in turn relates to security and privacy issues).
    LBS services face distrust by users owing to the loss of personal freedom and control over the technology e.g. intrusive advertising, commercial pressure, loss of autonomy, etc.
    It is crucial for the service provider to maintain a level of trust with users by acting transparently with regards to personal privacy translating into strict application of a code of ethics on the service use combined with clear and simple information for consumers on the usages that could be made of their location data / ensure consumers have the means of controlling what they can and cannot do i.e. right not to be located, not to be disconnected, choose who will have access to his data, etc.

    Unless there's clarity on these issues, LBS will not go mainstream
  • Cush · 10 months ago
    Great predictions... Here are my thoughts on a few of them...

    prediction 1 , While apple may retain its top position I predict that there will be a major rework on how the store presents applications. Apple is already suffering backlash from developers and end users on its current app store structure.

    Prediction 2 It will only be one new model if defined by form size
    with most of the same functionality. Current model will add a 32 gig model.

    Prediction 3 Gosh I hope so! The current google android phone has like 2 hrs tops battery life!... not very usable;-)