#mobilla

Expressions are integral to every living being and they go infinite way. Trying to communicate is a form of expression. Or is it the other way expression is a form of communication.

Human being have come a long way when it comes to communicating. We have come from mere signs to communicating via waves I meant telephones. Telephone from wired to wireless.

Mobile phone evolved from a mere communication device to a lifestyle device. We do a lot from just talking to making movies. When mobile phone is combined with power of internet, it made a revolution in communication.

Again various regions in the world are at different stages in this evolution and revolution. Through this blog, I want to log my learnings on the evolution, revolution and many more in mobile and internet space.

It will help Me a lot than anyone. If it helps anyone else too I will be more than happy.

In a haste towards monetizing Twitter, it looks the management at Twitter are making decisions that are dampening interest in new developers. Just recently, Twitter has come up with new Developers Rules of the Road listing limitations for third party developers. 

Going forward there would be Display Requirements instead of Display Guidelines limiting UI Innovations over twitter statuses. And if number of users of a client is limited to 1 Million if your applications needs user tokens to 1 Lakh if your application uses Timeline and Account Settings. Which means Twitter can hold you, if they turn as big as Uber Twitter or TweetDeck or if you found a better monetizing model. It is pretty much evident, there were lots of innovations around twitter dominating the services provided by Twitter themselves. Many companies have proved them too:

Twitter Lists is also a concept of managing tweets first cracked by TweetDeck, Hootsuite etc URL Shortening is a concept that came out of need from Twitter users and was addressed first by third party developers. Embedding a pic in a tweet by Twicpic.  Echofon Firefox plugin made it easy for me to read tweets of people. TweetWhatYouSpend(twys) is a service where when user sends a DM with spending amount, category wise to ‘twys’, all expenses get tracked.  There were also lots of UI Innovations for managing loads of tweets.  Considering the wide spread of usage of Twitter, it has many other options than throwing up limitations to developers. Here are a couple of them.

All consumer technologies and products go through  a cycle of maturity. At initial stages in experimental mode, earlier they used to stay within closed set of users.

During early commercial stages it falls into early adopters. These users look to us common people as geeks or tech savvy. We forget to realize that once proven successful they are going to be common place in our life. Mobile Phone and Internet are two of those I have witnessed going through this cycle.  Earlier mobile phones were used by either elite rich or early adapters. Now even my grandmother who is from era of no phone is seen using mobile phone. I see my mother playing games on today’s touch screen tablets. 

Apple was never Apple without Steve Jobs and so would it be in future. Whatever Apple is now would be its high and would start moving down now. It’s pretty evident in its new upgrades in products and the magnitude in which Apple devices are throwing up issues.

An year ago at least I never heard an Apple device crashing and if it did it is News. But now it is pretty commonplace.  When an innovator like Apple is going down and now it would be someone else’s turn. It could be anyone and innovation could be in any form factor.