Mobility Past, Present & Future - A personal journey through time | Mobile Convention 2015
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The presentation of IBM, Gold sponsor of Mobile Convention Brussels 2015. Dean Murphy, MobileFirst Business Leader at IBM takes on a journey of his personal experiences of mobility and it’s evolution over the last few years to where we are today. To do this we need to go back in time.
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Editor's Notes
- I’d like to take you on a journey of my personal experiences of mobility and it’s evolution over the last few years to where we are today. To do this we need to go back in time.
- Stepping forward in time it wasn’t until 1994 that I got my next piece of mobile technology.
- I was still in high school and it was a time of change, we’d been allowed to user calculators in maths classes, no more logarythm books – yippee!! Our teacher had promised to get us calculators and we could pay when he had them – I got fed up of waiting for him to get them so I cycled into my local time at lunchtime and bought my own.
- This is it – it was a programmable calculator – I couldn’t install apps on it but I could program it to perform certain mathematical functions. My favourite was to convert between Centrigrade and Farenheight – very useful in my geography lessons. I still have this calculator after 34 years.
- Stepping forward in time it wasn’t until 1994 that I got my next piece of mobile technology.
- My first Smart Watch, a Timex Data Link. This was a databank watch that allowed me to store phone numbers, reminders, appointments and more and to synchronise it wirelessly with my PC.
- Jumping forward to 1996 the time when I got my first Personal Digital Assistant
- A Psion 3c – a black and white screen, well black and green but it came with pre-insalled apps such as a database, word processor, spreadsheet as well as calendar and world clock. I remember creating a database for all my VHS tapes – what a waste of time that was.
- Moving forward through time again we arrive in 1998 and things start to accelerate with mobile tech.
- At the time I was involved in a laptop rollout programme and I some how managed to convince my boss that me getting a Microsoft based PDA would enable me to see if this type of device could be an alternative to a laptop. I got the HP 620LX – the first colour Windows CE device that came with cut down versions of internet explorer, word, excel, powerpoint and more. Not only this but I had a PC Card modem that I could connect to my Nokia phone and connect to the internet at 9.6k – that’s 0.0096Mbps – remember that the next time your 4G connection running slow.
- In 1996 my mobile career started – at the time I was working for CSC – Computer Sciences Corporation and overhead a coupe of guys saying they needed somebody to write web pages for a mobile phone. I’d done some website work before so I volunteered.
- And so I got involved in WAP – Wireless Application Protocol. A poorly marketed technology that set the expection of the “Internet on your phone”. I saw the business potential for this and worked on projects where we mobilised business data from Lotus Notes, SAP and Siebel.
- Around this time I was provided with a Psion 5x, I loved this PDA. Who remembers downloading news for offline reading using AvantGo? Do you remember doing this?
- In 2000 we started to see how our devices could be expanded and the Compaq iPad demonstrated this very well. I had a number of jackets for mine including a dual PC Card one – I would load GPS maps onto my 1gb hard drive and slot in a GPS receiver to use sat nav on the go. I also had a Nokia data card that would take a SIM card and allowed me to have wireless access to the internet, I could agregate data connections to boost my connect to 19.2K – fast at the time.
- I had a number of PDA devices over the years, more on that in a moment but in 2002 I discovered always on email. The company I was working for had an Exchange server and I came across a company called Commtag who had a push email solution. At the time bluetooth was starting to appear in devices plus O2 had just launched their GPRS service to the mass market – technology was aligning to give me an alternative to BlackBerry.
- As I mentioned I had a number of different PDAs and connected devices over the years – you quickly forget that many of these had to be soft reset at least once a day when they would lock up, in the early days they even lost their data when the battery ran out. As you can see, I had was a big Microsoft fan and other than a brief affair with Palm I stayed faithful for a number of years.
- In 2007 a milestone event occurred that has shaped mobility today.
- It was the year that Apple launched the iPhone. I looked at this and although it was a very nice device it didn’t have 3G nor the ability to add apps and lacked multi-tasking – something I’d been doing for years. So I decided to wait. The next year Apple launched the iPhone 3G and the App Store – it was getting there but still lacked multi-tasking. And wait – Google tried to tempt me but I wasn’t convinced about Android for me. The 3GS still lacked multi-tasking so once again I decided to wait. Finally in 2011 Apple wooed me away from Microsoft with the iPhone 4 – 3G, apps and at last, multi-tasking. I have a confesion to make – I’m an addict – I’m now addicted to Apple design.
- So this brings us up to date
- We now have lots of choice either as consumers, business users with both Smartphones and Tablets. Wearables are becoming increasingly popular and the tens of thousands of apps give us lots to support our interests and waste time.
- So what of the future – I’ve tried to pick a small number of things that I think will evolve and mature over the next few years – nothing radical.
- I think wearable technology will continue to evolve and we’ll start to see how the data can be shared in a secure way. At IBM we are trialing fitness monitors with staff and those that achieve certain activity goals are eligible for discounts on things like health insurance. We’ve already seen examples of peoples lives being saved through historical heart rate data captured by the Apple Watch using Health Kit. I can how challenging work aspects such as lone worker safety can be improved in this way.
- The internet of things will explode – the consumer equipment will become more interoperable, we see Apple’s Home Kit as an example of this. In industry we’ll start to see sensors being deployed to construction, transportation, manufacturing and more to deliver business insights beyond what we have today. Combining this with predictive analytics will be a very powerful tool.
- Handover of content creation and consumption will become more seamless – we see examples of this with Apple’s handover and Amazon’s video player app but it will move beyond this – to steal a photographers phrase, the best computer will be the one you have with you.
- Processing in the Cloud will become more prevalent – we already see examples of this with solutions such as Apple’s Siri and IBM’s Watson but trends such as the lowering of in the EU, the removal of data roaming charges will mean we no longer need to this about the cost of this nor the impact on our day as we travel or go on holiday.
- Thank You