Is 'Mobile Ready' Future Ready?

摘要

Are we about to see the end of feature phones? (That's what they're calling non-smarfphones now—I suppose it's bad market positioning to call them dumb phones.) Are we quickly entering an era where all of our users and managers will be on smartphones, and what does that mean to libraries and librarians and other information professionals? I've been thinking about this for some time. I think we're about to see a precipitous decline in the production of feature phones (also known as flip phones) or just those ordinary mobile phones we've been using for years. This is going to happen for a number of reasons: l.The phone isn't the thing—it's the commercial opportunity that it represents.