I was always a BEBO man, no matter how many people signed up to facebook. I held strong and told them it was crap. That’s not to say I didn’t have an account for viewing friends photos etc. I just never used it. This was all before I purchased an iPhone. With the iPhone came much excitement, twittering, blogging, posting photos instantaneously and so on.
Then one day I downloaded the Facebook App. To say I became addicted was a little of an understatement. I linked my twitters with my facebooks and my facebooks with my twitters. I sent pictures from one to the other, I uploaded links to google maps showing my current position. The madness was endless. Then one day I accessed Facebook on my laptop…disappointing! It was crap! The interface was slow and difficult, confusing even.
But on my iPhone…well the simplicity was just magic. The ease of update and upload made the whole experience, well user friendly.
This is historical my friends. The day when an application or website actually becomes better to access on your mobile device than on an actual computer is groundbreaking. Now perhaps I am the only one (this is where your comments can help) but it is still a tipping point.
The point in time at which we change from one process to another. Mainly it is not noticeable at the time but looking back we can all see it.
Malcolm Gladwell describes Tipping points as “the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.”
The mobile phone is a perfect example of this. When was it that we all began to text so much. The first commercial text message was sent in 1992 now the number of texts sent everyday exceeds 8 Billion! So where was the tipping point and did anyone notice at the time. There was a point in the history of the mobile phone that it would have been impossible for the telecommunications companies to remove the text feature.
Have Apple creating a tipping point in mobile devices and Internet access or the facebook with their addictive app! With the advent of the new iPhone 3.0 software announced yesterday it appears there is even more scope for all those developers out there to create even more exciting applications (1000 new APIs).
It makes me wish I could develop, instead I wait with bated breath. Go forth developers and make something awesome. Make an application so good that I will become even more addicted to my iPhone. My family won’t thankyou, but I will.
