what's the future for mobile application? [closed]

Question

There are so many apps available and it seems the market is saturate. Now, it's year 2011, I'm wondering if it's too late to jump on to the Mobile Application development bandwagon. Can you still make a living by making apps?

Answer 1

It sounds almost like saying "Can you still make a living making apps for the PC" - you can.

Answer 2

Can one make a living by cranking out mediocre, 50th percentile, or "me too" apps?

No.

Can one make a living by making a top 5% app that does something marketably unique and interesting?

Very possibly. New apps seem to appear in the top 200 every month.

Answer 3

With all the new hardware coming out, the market is never saturated. How many Android apps make use of a dual core Honeycomb tablet with a 1280x800 resolution? How many iOS apps make use of the iPad2's dual core CPU and fast GPU?

Answer 4

Yes, I do. Devices and languages may change and evolve, but Mobile Application development will likely be around for quite some time.

Answer 5

There are so many apps available and it seems the market is saturate

Are you crazy?! hehe

People are so hungry for new apps, the market is growing as no other, mobile development now is probably the brightest side of development

Answer 6

The extent of a market is not determined by how long a technology has existed. A market is defined by a user need. Find a need that mobile users have and come up with a way to deliver a mobile application that answers to this need. You will then have expanded the market yourself and filled in the niche.

Answer 7

Jump on the bandwagon now. The train is just about to leave the station. You can definitely make a living if you put some thought into your app. Even if you don't have the greatest idea, just copy someone else and make it better. People will pay for quality.

Answer 8

Yes, I also agree. You won't get rich, but you can earn some money coding mobile applications.

There will be a day when everybody will have a PDA/Smartphone with mobile Internet.

Answer 9

Making phones App is really competitive especially if its games , in the future there will be huge amounts of apps and people would not benefit much of it . in my advice think of the future before you decide to make anything .

good luck & god bless .

Answer 10

I'm 16 years old and I started this last year. I told myself that android was something of signifigance because of how new it was. Plus I like to make applications to benefit myself mostly and my phone is great place to do that. Android is a wonderful

Answer 11

Well, today, sure you can make living on mobile applications because they get available to millions of users via marketplaces and app repositories so you can provide your apps in reasonable price and get good profit. Also they are mostly small applications and every day people look for apps to do the same things but with a new look or more fluent interface.

For the future, in my opinion mobile devices get smarter each day and the gap between PCs and mobile devices get narrower each day as well. So I think one day and I do not think it will be very far from now the difference between a laptop and a mobile will seize to exist and you will chose the form factor you like as you decide today the size in inches of your laptop. When this happen the separation of mobile development from application development on PC will vanish and you will be able to install any application on any device running the same OS. Also with HTML5 we may prefer to use some of our applications online without installation whatsoever. May be then the only thing developer shall be thinking of is supporting smaller screens.

Answer 12

The way we use computers is changing - we used to (and still do really) have big packages for desktops that are all singing and all dancing - but these are going to be replaced entirely (except for specific professional requirements) by smaller, specific purpose built, simple apps. For example, one app for taking fun photos - and a whole separate app for taking passport photos with your laptop webcam.

Apple are tackling this head on by merging their concepts to do with interface design from iphone and ipad back into their main OS so OSX Lion is starting to look like an iPad and starting to gather tons of small web based apps whilst it is at it.

Google are going to bring out a browser based operating system later this year pre-installed on little laptops to tackle the same thing.

What this means for the industry and for programmers is lots and lots of small app developers innovating and creating small purpose built apps. Key points for consideration in new web apps/services - cloud connectivity, cross platform, mobile compatibility.

Happy days!