Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Search for the Killer App Never Ends
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "THOUGHT" @ 02:39 AM
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030214S0024
"Never-Sleeps-Foo Fighter" caught eye on an interesting article called The Myth of Messaging. The author Carl Zetie presents an plausible and attractive idea that there is no "killer app" for the mobile and wireless market. Carl is well articulated and I agree with him that as with XML Web Services and relational databases, there is not one single "killer app".
"One of the most popular questions about mobile and wireless is still, "what's the killer app?" A lot of people don't seem willing to accept that PDAs and wirelessly connected laptops have a significant role in the enterprise unless there's an obvious killer app. What's strange about this question is that few other new technologies, even ones equally as disruptive as mobility, are held to this high standard. What's the killer app for Web services? What was the killer app for relational databases?"
"Never-Sleeps-Foo Fighter" caught eye on an interesting article called The Myth of Messaging. The author Carl Zetie presents an plausible and attractive idea that there is no "killer app" for the mobile and wireless market. Carl is well articulated and I agree with him that as with XML Web Services and relational databases, there is not one single "killer app".
"One of the most popular questions about mobile and wireless is still, "what's the killer app?" A lot of people don't seem willing to accept that PDAs and wirelessly connected laptops have a significant role in the enterprise unless there's an obvious killer app. What's strange about this question is that few other new technologies, even ones equally as disruptive as mobility, are held to this high standard. What's the killer app for Web services? What was the killer app for relational databases?"
