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The last 10 years has seen mainstream adoption of TCP/IP based networks. The XML/WAP stack was one of the first modern methods to introduce location based services on phones that had vendor specific OS’s. This early attempt to make mobile services to the masses had its own limitation, namely interaction.


The availability of TCP/IP networks across cellular devices has changed that ( Java / Boss has helped too) . Now those cellular devices serve as computers and a phone. For the next 3 years, we are likely to see inter app collaboration within the same phone as a normal activity. Apps will help each other to function.


Yes - the open stack endeavours and licensing of OS's like Andriod make development efforts more justifiable as there is an instant market waiting to use your app-based creation – commercial or corporate. What will the Andriod and Apple ecosystem now extend to ? How will Virgin Galactic provide an ecosystem in space ? What commodity cyber services will your smart city need? Will we see the formulation of vendor neutral enterprise environments and still get the services we need securely ?


The next three years will see different fields of technology come together in unison to make technology-as-a-commodity the modus-operandi and with new 5G/n networks around the corner, the ability to digest the commodity services will also change. The end goal for SME's, Vendors and manufactures will be to make serviceable commodity components ( Container solutions like Docker will help secure DevOps efforts ).


The app base economy has its foundations already in play, servicing many different industries across many different field based technologies, making the next three years the final checkpoint before technology becomes a commodity i.e. defining your roadmap to 2020. What will you be doing after 2020?