Unified Communications Providers have App Launch Fever
How many apps are there for your iPhone or iPad? Macstories.net reports 306,554 iPhone apps and 60,000 iPad apps. Lots more are on the way. Unified communications providers have launch fever for iPhone, iPad and Android apps, including video. Some companies are earning kudos for their apps. Here are a couple articles about apps that would have made Steve Jobs proud.
A law firm in Adelaide, Australia, uses iPhones for court reporting, video conferencing communications and client management. This app won an award for best innovation in the legal industry.
Computerworld reports that Medtronic, the medical technology company based in Minnesota, deployed 5,000 iPads, about two-thirds of them are for salespeople. Industry analyst Forrester gave Medtronic a Groundswell Award for this innovation.
The same article mentions a survey that Forrester recently completed with 1,681 U.S.-based workers about smart phone use. The results? The BlackBerry still leads among U.S. workers, with 42%, but this is a smaller share than the combined share of iPhone (at 22%) and Android (at 26%).
Even IBM is getting into the act with an experimental Mobile System Remote app. Now I’m tempted to use the word “ubiquitous.”
Any guesses at how many apps for iPhones and iPads there will be by this time next year? Before you know it, we’ll be devising shorthand schemes for app quantities like the data storage industry does with gigabytes, petabytes, exabytes, etc.