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Mobile Is More than the New Web: How Mobile Impacts Businesses

We pointed out earlier that mobile is all set to rule the web. In fact, as we speak, it’s already making in roads and changing computing habits leading to the new mobile web, rise of mobile apps, and a relentless drive to make sure that websites, applications, and everything else related to computing renders on the mobile as well. According to IHS, which published an important study, PC shipments are already losing their stronghold each year. IDC and Gartner together predict that through the 3rd Quarter of 2012, PC shipments were already at the lowest point since 2001.

Yet, the PC or the laptop isn’t going to go away; it’s just going to tag along with mobile devices -- those illustrious, popular, and princely cousins.

Users compute with mobile devices, and not on them

The smartphones and tablets are popular devices for media consumption. You could check email, work with apps, browse the net, and even input data into these devices but that’s where the buck stops. Bulk of actual computing work – the hardcore variety – is still done on traditional computers and this is not going to go away.

Cloud Computing will grow further thanks to the mobile

Mobile devices add to more computing activity than ever. As APIs grow in use and popularity, more cloud applications are made available to mobile and tablet users. As a result, the growth of cloud computing is actually understated since most studies (until now, at least) do not take mobile access to cloud solutions into account. Further, there are virtually unimaginable numbers of ways these web-based tools morph into new businesses, ideas, and niches, so to speak. It just makes sense to watch out for the mobile space apart from creating a profitable presence on the mobile.

The end isn’t at mobiles and tablets

Consumers and businesses generally tend to be shortsighted when it comes to technology trends. Smartphones and tablets are just the start of a journey that’s sure to stretch to various other devices that will still be mobile. Google Glass, Apple TV, and the much-touted Apple Wristband or watches are some of those examples of where the future would take us. That’s as far as the vision goes but there’s much more to witness in the future. In fact, Cisco predicts that there would be at least 1 trillion devices in use by the end of this year alone.

BYOD is good or bad, depending on business perspective

Some companies will stick to corporate owned devices while some others will move over and adopt the BYOD (Bring your own Device) model. Picking parameters such as ease of use, cost-savings, security, etc., the extent to which BYOD becomes commonplace is strictly a matter of corporate policies, sensitivity of data in use, and the actual business itself.

BYOD, however, won’t throw corporate databases out into the wild. It presents as much of a security risk as that involved in a traditional data-stored-on-servers or contemporary cloud-computing model that most businesses do take to.

Where do you think the mobile would go? What impact will growth of mobile have on businesses?


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