Mobile Apps: The Wave of the Future Is Upon Us - Ride It, Don't Get Caught on the Inside

摘要

A few days ago, a friend of mine (let's call him Ned in deference to the famed Ned Ludd) told me he had just bought an Android phone and, rather skeptically, asked me how many apps I use. I had never really thought about it too thoroughly, but I started rattling off things I do in my average day. I wake up to the sound of an alarm from an app called iHome, then roll over, half-conscious, and tap my email app. I assess how my day will be (I have a theory about good days and bad days: an email that emits an instant negative response in the morning is a reliable, tell-tell sign that your day will be going downhill). Once I have, more or less, understood what went down in my world while I was asleep, I tap the weather app to see what the day will be like (and also usually look at the weather in Ithaca, New York, where I used to live for a few years). I smile thinking that the weather in my current home is far better than it is in Ithaca, and I get up. Before jumping into the shower, I tap a streaming radio app (the news channel or a rock and roll station, depending on the mood that my first read email brought about).