The soaring growth of messaging apps is likely to be a tsunami in work tech
I saw a chart today that confirmed what I have been seeing across the board in the increasingly mobile workforce dependent on companion devices:
A 200% increase in the use of messaging and social apps, and a 150% increase in the use of utilities and productivity tools from 2012 to 2013. These are the leaders in companion use.
What does this mean for work tech? It’s obvious : those vendors of work technology products that can become a key part of this adoption, the surge of time spent on handhelds — and soon wearables — will come to dominate the next era of ‘computications’. And just as surely, those that remain wedded to the old PC-and-a-browser form factor of work tech will fade into the background.
