The Future of Mobile: From the Emerging Technologies Conference
Some notes from the panel (not direct quotes):
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: It's still too expensive to develop an application that runs across a broad range of phones.
Liz Altman: Low-end phones will use proprietary operating systems.
Rich Miner: Agrees with that, but says mid-range phones are getting more capable, and will be compatible with the Android operating system before long.
Miner: Google will try to avoid bloatware - aim for simplicity - even as phones get more capable.
Lynch says that "thought interfaces" will be a promising way to interact with mobile devices in the future. Miner is bullish on speech, and mentions Vlingo, a Cambridge start-up. The idea of scanning barcodes of products to get more info about a product also comes up.
Labels: Adobe, Android, conferences, Elizabeth Altman, Google, Kevin Lynch, MIT, mobile, Motorola, Rich Miner, Vlingo