Mobile apps’ popularity has been increasing and its steady growth is staggering. With millions of mobile technology users worldwide, the growing demand for new mobile apps every day is not surprising at all. Mobile devices have become the trend nowadays and since web-browsing is kind of awkward and inconvenient using a mobile device, more mobile users choose to use mobile apps instead.
Indeed, mobile apps are everywhere and can be used for almost anything. Online users are now moving into smartphones, tablets and other portable devices. And thus, we can find mobile apps for banking, for news, for games, for travelling, for weather, for stores, for restaurants, and many more. And it keeps on coming! With this astounding development, some people are asking if there’s still a need for web.
Mobile apps brought about radical changes in the way online users share information in the last two decades. Instead of the more open and generic web sites, apps have turned information sharing into a closed, exclusive and limited experience. Imagine an online world without the web anymore and everything is accessed through mobile apps. Maybe even system tools like PC Speed Up will have a mobile app in the future as well just to accommodate this overwhelming shift from the web to mobile apps. It’s not hard to imagine at all.
Obviously, mobile app developers see how lucrative the area is and have seized the moment. Online users’ expectations have been shaped by these mobile apps developers who view them as consumers. Some mobile apps developer even went beyond the basics and capitalized on online users’ fears, naivety, indifference and eagerness to be entertained to come up with mobile apps that they can charge users with.
Is this the beginning of the end of web browsing? Are mobile apps slowly and successfully eclipsing the web? Obviously, the web still plays an important role in people’s lives and it can be hard to knock it off its current supremacy but many mobile users tend to believe that mobile apps will altogether surpass the greatness of web one of these days.
Researchers at Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project contradict the abovementioned statement however as its survey results say that most respondents believe that the web will continue to reign the online stage though mobile apps will continue to be a very useful option for restricted amount of information.
That’s a relief. I personally am not ready to live an online life with just mobile apps. I’ll take the web anytime, unless mobile apps developers come up with a free and unlimited information sharing capability for mobile apps, just like how the web is.
About the Author: May Avery is a Computer Engineer by virtue of education and have been employed in various technical positions in different industries including the Academe, IT, SEO and Product Distribution. She currently teaches Microsoft Office 2010 in a college in Hawaii and writes technical articles for PC Speed Up.
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Agree that mobile devices have become the trend nowadays. Some of these apps are very helpful. And people are demanding more apps everyday.
Agree with you, not ready to live an online life with just mobile apps.
What you can do in you PC, you can actually do now on your cellphones, that is how the mobiles are effective and updated.
Thanks for posting this very informative post!
It’s amazing to see how apps have grown to such an extent that there’s now an app economy. This is where many jobs are being created solely by apps. Thanks for the post Robert : )
Could it be the apps take over completely? Could be our reality soon.
Nice! I think this trend will keep people connected round the clock and also it is going to ruin our social life as well
I think it will take quite some time for mobile browsing to eclipse the web. For that to happen, cell phones would have to become just as powerful as laptops and desktop computers. Also a lot more websites would have to create mobile versions of their sites. Even if that happens, it is still ultimately a better experience to use the web.
This is true; a lot of applications are very useful nowadays that’s why people are very dependent in using applications. Even children start using different kinds of applications as ah toy or means of education.
mobile apps really gone wild these days over web…….there are lots of useful apps over there in web
I Believe it will take quite a some time for mobile surfing to overshadow the internet.
people today can not live without their mobile applications, it is amazing
Mobile apps are big I was just telling my buddy I need to come up with a game app because it seems like they be cashing in big :0) great post my friend
Good post dear. I know mobile applications are good for the person
Very good indeed thou bad apps are making headlines around the wireless industry for consuming massive bandwidth and slowing down the network.
Mobile apps can never take over the web..however popular mobile apps get..at least that’s what i think. and hopefully i’m right :)
There are so many mobile apps that I’ve become addicted. Nowadays, I cannot even imagine how I would manage without using my mobile phone. I think that in several years the tablets and mobile phones will replace the Pc’s, as they are getting smaller and more efficient.
The main benefits which comes from the mobile application is that it is very convenient so it comes easy for user to use it from anywhere. It will also help to reduce the bandwidth consumption and server load which is very advantageous for any company.
Interesting post. Thanks.
Awesome! ;]
Mobile application’s had been one of the trending things happening in the internet. People get crazy about this applications especially when it comes to games. The interaction from other players is also possible when the user connects and plays it using the internet. While some applications are also used for business purposes which helps some task from those busy people.
I think nowadays mobile app development is a vast terminology that holds technology and creativity at an equal proportion. So mobile apps generally augment the functions of gadgets that are stealing the world of technology in recent times.
Really nice post !
The great thing with mobiles is that .. ugh .. they are mobile. You can access email accounts, play games or even work on your mobile phone nowadays. It is not strange that mobile applications are taking over the web. Most software developers have turned their interest in developing applications for Androids and other Operating systems for mobiles.
Best of luck
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