An interesting thought of Jeff Belk in an article at gigaom.com: The future beyond the cloud is in our hands. In, let's say 2020, mobile devices will have a capacity of many many terabytes offline storage. Bandwidth and capacity of the mobile carriers will still be a problem according to Jeff. So many companies like Google and Amazon will make use of local storage to put lots of their online content making it available offline. Synchronizing will take place at moments when devices are in reach of local area networks.
To me it is plausible, although it contradicts with one of my own pred-ICT-ions: 'future mobile devices will be small and with limited functionality'. Jeff's prediction might be the situation for rural areas with wide area networks with limited capacity, mine for urban areas where high bandwidth wide area networks like LTE are ubiquitous.
We'll see if our pred-ICT-ions will contrad-ICT or not!
Hi Leen,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the insights. I still think that 3G/4G networks will become much stronger in the future and that decentralizing company data is something from the past. Many reasons for that, of which security and maintenance is one of them. Beside security and maintenance of data, you also have the issues like build and maintenance costs for the app itself.
As we all know that roughly 60% of the TCO is the post-build phase, native/local devices consume much more time/complexity and money.
Understand me well, I do see a place for native/local apps on mobile devices. Many business related apps have a much better fit by using pure web / hybride approach.
Best regards,
Mark Slooff
OutSystems
Mark,
ReplyDeleteI don't think Jeff meant local company data nor native apps as the default choice. If I do understand him well, local storage will be used as a replication area for cloud data. Synchronization will be performed by cloud services that manage that data.
Best regards,
L1