Apps Are All Around UsOur Swindon business advice column with Gail GibsonIn the past week Barclays,
Majestic
Wine and Georgia Tech
have all unveiled their latest app creations; from easier money transfers, to
testing your wine knowledge and helping the blind to send text messages.
Amazing!
While apps
are not a brand new innovation, what is happening right now is that the growth
of the industry is moving along at an incredible pace.
And it’s not just
downloadable games, music and maps that are being designed. Apps are fast
becoming the alternative way to gain access to and carry out everyday things,
together with a little challenge, excitement and fun thrown into the mix. Apps
for almost everything are all around us.
From a B2B
perspective, what level of impact does this innovative technology have on your
business now and into the foreseeable future?
Here are a few questions you can
ask yourself:
- Thinking about getting an app
designed? Do you have an idea just waiting in the wings that has the
potential to become a valuable benefit for your business?
- What could an app do to
improve your service or product?
- How can the development of an
app be utilised to attract new business and retain your existing loyal
customers?
- What type of app could you
design to engage and/or entertain?
- How will your app make a
difference?
One
important aspect to consider is what mobile platform you will market your app
on. As market leaders, Apple currently has pole position with the largest
number of iPhone and iPad users.
However rather than limiting your opportunity,
choose a multiple platform design interface to cover the entire mobile device
market including iPhone, Android, Tablet, iPad, Blackberry and more.
That way
you will open the doors to more opportunity and a much wider audience. Is now the
time for you to take the first-move advantage and be an app leader in your
market, not a follower?
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