FUTURE OF APPS

In late 1990’s people used to think of what use would websites be. Only few businesses ventured into the world of websites, but within few years, websites became a powerful and indispensible part of any business. Now a business cannot even think of surviving without owning a website.

Now we are observing another shift in the business technology, and this is the rise of mobile apps. On daily basis apps are being used by innumerous number of people all around the world. But most people wonder what good are apps when we have mobile or tab configured websites, well them they need to know that what is the difference between mobile compatible website and mobile app, and also how these differences impact a business.

Mobile compatible websites are just a form of miniaturized size of website we see in our desktop or laptops, while mobile apps are designed to store all the data and give a personalized view of website data and all the information along with additional features not included in a website. The advantage of these apps over mobile compatible websites is that the time required to process any information required by an app is quite less as compared to that of a mobile compatible website. This time variation could make a lot of difference as people would love their tasks being processed faster, hence giving mobile app an edge.

For all these reasons, we can see the rise in number of apps being downloaded annually. Here is the statistics of it.

So what created this huge increase in the number of apps in market, it’s the gigantic leap in the number of smartphones and tabs being shipped to various places around the globe. Currently, it accounts to more than 50% of total shipments made all around the world annually.