Development requires careful service rather than application

It is reported that in the era of smartphones, new applications are emerging, developers will pay a considerable amount of effort, but there are many applications for the audience but there is no practical significance. Recently, Science and technology blog TechCrunch contributor Ariane Xia Sol Universalis (Alexia Tsotsis) November 14 published an article, said that developers should focus on services rather than applications. The following is a full text summary:

I have a bunch of apps on my iphone that I don't know about, like Flud, Apptitude and Cartoonatic, and some apps I can't even remember. Some of the apps on my main screen, I remember their purpose, simply because they were developed by my acquaintances and friends. Sadly, I never use them.

There are also a few apps on the main screen that I use every day (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Foursquare, Spotify, reminders, Safari, Messenger and Yammer). For those "relegated to the second line" apps, I usually forget to download them and bother to look for them, so I often replace them with Google and SMS messages.

I really think there should be an application that will let those applications that have not been opened for some time disappear.

We've written a lot of articles about "application fatigue," but it doesn't seem to discourage application developers, who are continuing to develop a lot of useless apps or socialmobilelocal (social mobile local) products that are more appropriate for Foursquare. Do not assume that application developers will soon stop: Android is growing wildly, iOS has a huge impact, plus low cost of development, which makes some unknown applications get high downloads. For example, bump has been downloading more than 50 million times, but nobody I know uses it. If bump's existence proves anything, it is that many somolo applications are basically competing with SMS messages.

I realized that it was impossible to ask all the people to stop making applications. 74% of people think the world needs more mobile apps, even though we already have covers iOS apps that have been downloaded 18 billion times.

The "Applied economy" is huge and brings a lot of job opportunities. Imagine that 10 years later, your favorite apps on your phone's screen are not even there yet, which is a bit shocking.

So if you can't beat them, you can join them. But if you're going to join them, I want you to think about one thing-rethinking the relationship between application and service. Please stop making apps, or gimmicks, or anything that doesn't solve the problem. Just because you have a famous co-founder and/or a significant amount of investment that allows you to get through the initial stages of whatever you do, you create something stupid and thoughtful. You need to really solve a problem, even if the question is "What do I want to do in the next 15 minutes?"

Focus on creating services, not just applications. The application can be an integral part of the service (like Spotify), but it should only exist to bring convenience to the users of the service. The application exists to add value, not just to appear cool.

Start thinking about what to solve, then create new ideas, try to solve the problem and solve the problem on as many platforms as possible, even if one of the platforms is the App store.

Why do people like batch? Because it solves the problem. Some people may have some doubts about the application at first, but it solves the problem of "What do I do with these photos on my phone?" While this may not be enough to support a long-term business, it is at least a start.