A New Era for Mobile Phone Apps
With Friday’s launch of the new Apple iPhone 3GS, we now have a hand-held device that really gives app developers a platform to work with.
If any of you developers need investment money to further your app development efforts, check out this post I made back in February. The venture capital firm, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers is looking to invest in iPhone app developers.
On the other hand, CNN had an interesting poll on their news site today, where they asked the question, “Does your cell phone have the features you want?”
- 30% said, “Yes, it’s perfect.”
- 21% said, “No, I wish it had more stuff.”
- 49% said, “I just want it to ring.”
Has anyone tried to buy a mobile phone lately that just makes phone calls? I have, and there is practically nothing to chose from. With about half of all mobile phone users wanting a device that only makes phone calls, this is a very large—unserved—market. The folks who came up with the Jitterbug mobile phone apparently have this niche market all to themselves. It is too bad they do not yet have broad enough distribution.
Innovation does not demand making things more complicated—it takes real innovation to make things more simple.
Then again, maybe the innovators should check with customers first.
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