2009年12月16日星期三

v-Fluence Interactive - v-Fluence CEO Contends Growth in Mobile “Apps” Forebodes PC’s Demise

Aside from authoritative activity easier for us on-the-run, adaptable apps are aswell accepting the aimless aftereffect of training us for the closing annihilation of the PC – and organizations should get accessible for that new world, according to Jay Byrne, CEO of online bazaar analysis and abutment agency v-Fluence Interactive. “Point-of-consumption agreeable opportunities and risks are booming, and organizations that are not accession themselves now for the accompanying accouterment will acquisition themselves at cogent disadvantages,” Byrne said.

In a new blog entry, Byrne predicts the annihilation of the PC, acquainted that it will “not abruptness anyone who has advised the history of the ever-shrinking computer.

“It may be harder for the X and Y ancestors to anticipate a absolutely PC-free world,” Byrne writes. “However, they will be arch the way with their accelerated acceptance of adaptable and added point-of-consumption alternate tools.”
Those gluttonous chump and added key stakeholder access should ask themselves some key questions: Where and if are there credibility of accommodation and consumption, and how do I bigger participate at those places and at those times? For many, those transaction credibility will be via some adaptable appliance interfacing with a acute phone, car GPS arrangement or added Web- enabled apparatus or device.

For example, Apple afresh appear its billionth app download, and a Pew Internet & American Life address predicts that by 2020, added agreeable will be captivated by adaptable accessories than all added platforms— PC included. While apps like the Whoopee Cushion or the iBeer may not assume aggressive to above brands or alignment promoters, they are training and affective us abroad from bulkier interface accessories for our entertainment, news, artefact analysis and purchases at an amazing pace. For example, aliment shoppers in Japan are already application adaptable buzz cameras enabled with bar cipher readers to analysis on the above of alone cuts of meat and analyze articles with adaptable arcade administration that draw agreeable from consumer-generated sources. Also notable, this year's Annual Webby Awards will affection 5 new categories in the adaptable amplitude lauding best uses in adaptable apps, video and affiliation of GPS or Location Technology. Finally, the "home of the future," as answer by Microsoft, does not accept a individual PC or laptop on website but enables us to anticipate seamless interactions with acute accessories like refrigerators and anesthetic cabinets, which can (will) clue and administer our aliment and healthcare uses and needs.

v-Fluence Interactive’s analysis and ecology has evaluated an arrangement of arising apps above food, nutrition, bloom and activity industries that ambit from adaptable "best gas price" finders that draw from consumer-provided amount comparisons affiliated to your area while driving, to biologic "pill phones" to admonish you to crop and/or adjustment your prescriptions.
“Those with the a lot of acknowledged profiles accommodate amusing accord by end users over suppliers. It’s not yet time to abandon your amusing media strategies for an all-mobile focus, but, as with all aspects of the Web from blogs and beyond, the best access is layered, architecture on a foundation that includes a strategic, chip and best practice-based Web 1.0 attendance that extends bigger into 2.0 spaces and the adaptable arena,” Byrne writes

Today's amusing networks, wikis and added channels are already amalgamation into adaptable pipelines (á la Twitter) with apps that accommodate QR and bar cipher readers with GPS and added adaptable brew ups to accord us chump (versus supplier) ratings and purchasing options. Brands and organizations with able and accurate presences in the places area humans are acquirements to get trusted advice will bigger alteration to a bound growing apple of point-of-consumption interactions.”

About Jay Byrne: Author Jay Byrne is CEO of v-Fluence Interactive, an online bazaar analysis and abutment agency. Byrne is a appear columnist (Let Them Eat Precaution, AEI Press 2005) with abundant online autograph actualization in accessible address and business journals. He is a common apostle at barter and able conferences on alternate marketing.

About v-Fluence Interactive: With locations in San Diego, St. Louis, Boston, Chicago and Washington, DC, v-Fluence provides above brands and organizations the online analytics, action development and beheading abutment they charge to be measurably acknowledged on the Web. For added on the company, appointment www.v-fluence.com.

Contact:
Susan Luke
v-Fluence Interactive
314-520-6377
susan.luke@v-fluence.com

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