Alas, the age of technology is here! While we sleep, walk and talk, worry, stalk or simply just pet our Labrador Retrievers while thinking about the wonders of interstellar travel, the tech era’s glorious trumpets blow upon our very lives.
Alarm clocks, distance monitors, IP trackers, profile following and allegedly innocent photo-sharing networks: only few of what the make-up of our daily activities actually consists of. Now, many people get the chills only by thinking of server issues on Facebook; yet what I aim to touch upon further on follows a more… down-to-earth, practical line.
The future of app development is oriented in many directions, among which an undeniably stable one is that of utility.
Since Jobs the Almighty opened the way for new-generation mobile phones, the face of multi-functionality, as we knew it… well, let’s put it this way: take Robotic Efficiency, make it french- kiss Precision, implant it with the seed of Minute Diversity and voila! Their baby is the new, mutated form of multi-functionality which mobile technology embraced since Apple taught the world how. Therefore, the future looks grand for everyday simplicity in things that would have otherwise been a real pain in the neck.
Just imagine: the elderly, the disabled, busy people and, of course, gadget freaks will all benefit from the new world of gizmos which will shut the lights off for you, give those God-forsaken lost keys a ring, shut the stove (or your anxiety about having forgotten it on) for good, or just order a flashlight in the middle of the night by the simple press of a funky digital button or by increasingly popular voice commands. These innovations are really not that new, yet visualizing a world in which the most basic piece of technology is super-efficient and more importantly, at hand for most people… well, that is.
As apps are getting more and more specialized, and yet compatible with most of our mainstream electronic devices, the prospects of a semi-digitalized life are looking good. Development is bound to happen. The true challenge for app developers remains that of mixing it up well – so that apps, while keeping an eye on innovation, always stay fun, efficient and most importantly, increasingly user-friendly.
