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21 Jul 2011
Aaron Levie, Box.net founder made a quite valid statement at his Five Solid Startup Lessons at Stanford: Do something that was not possible three years ago. From my perspective, it can also be translated as “Use best of your knowledge and intuition to predict what will be big three years later and do it now.” Here are the items in mobile and web area that I believe will be possible or prevalent in 3 years.
- HTML5, not the mark-up language alone but more like the a set of related technologies such as CSS3, modernized Javascript and so on will dominate both web and mobile app world.
- Speaking of the mobile app, browser will be the next App Store (Marketplace, App World, App Catalog whatever you name it
). There is no necessary to download a client app to consume the content. An mobile optimized web site versus a mobile app will continue to be more blurry.
- NFC will be mind-blowing to fundamentally connect every “thing” in the world. Mobile payment is the foreshore application of it and will get more serious, eventually enter primer time.
- LBS will get big and business start making real cash from it.
- WebGL (see how awesome experiments Google has done here and here with it) and remote render farm will bring back the hardcore game back to the main stage. People will continue loving casual games, but we are able to see more and more 3D rendered masterpiece as well. Chances are we can play DOTA on iPhone 7.
- Apple specific: Mac OS X and iOS will eventually merge together as one single OS. A hybrid of iPad and Macbook Air will be empowered by it. Knell of PC era rings.
Everyone of those above will raise a couple of companies and million dollars in it. So I want to be one of them without doubt. (Yes, I will open my purse again for this Apple device.)
