Will Smartphones Soon be Obsolete?

Amy Groden-Morrison

Wearables

Walk around the streets of any major city today and it’s hard to believe people will ever relinquish their cell phones. A Q1 survey by Flurry reported that time spent on mobile devices was up 117% in 2015 compared to 2014. But one CEO is daring to predict the end of the smartphone.

A member of the board of Deutsche Telekom AG, Claudia Nemat, smartphones will be relics displayed in museums in 10 years. She predicts that smart clothing and other wearables will come with embedded chips for connectivity, eliminating the need for specialized devices meant for communication alone and replacing the smartphones of today.

We see more and more interest from organizations beginning to drive more and more business processes to smartphones and tablets, so we’re not ready to say smartphones are on their way out just yet. However, we do see the future in wearables and recently reported on the massive growth in the wearables market as enterprises begin to spend more and more on these technologies. It’s an important trend for developers to watch and be prepared for, so we recently announced Alpha WatchBench to help.

Alpha WatchBench

Alpha WatchBench

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Read how developers can begin to use Alpha Software’s free wearables prototyping software.

Web/Mobile Development, Apple Watch

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Amy Groden-Morrison

Amy Groden-Morrison has served more than 15 years in marketing communications leadership roles at companies such as TIBCO Software, RSA Security and Ziff-Davis. Most recently she was responsible for developing marketing programs that helped achieve 30%+ annual growth rate for analytics products at a $1Bil, NASDAQ-listed business integration Software Company. Her past accomplishments include establishing the first co-branded technology program with CNN, launching an events company on the NYSE, rebranding a NASDAQ-listed company amid a crisis, and positioning and marketing a Boston-area startup for successful acquisition. Amy currently serves as a Healthbox Accelerator Program Mentor, Marketing Committee Lead for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Launch Smart Clinics, and on the organizing team for Boston TechJam. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University.

The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.