Abstract: In the U.S. General accounting standards, Yahoo in the last quarter to create more than 700 million U.S. dollars in mobile products revenue, the year-on-year growth of 100%. Based on this movement, Yahoo is thinking about how to do the pieces in the beginning. According to the American financial
In the U.S. General accounting standards, Yahoo in the last quarter to create more than 700 million U.S. dollars in mobile products revenue, the year-on-year growth of 100%. Based on this movement, Yahoo is thinking about how to do the pieces in the beginning. Yahoo is trying to turn to the world of apps, and the next step will be to target wearable and other mobile devices, according to the FT.
Adam Cahan, Yahoo Mobile's senior vice president, predicts that Yahoo and the industry will be "a huge growth" in the future due to the accelerated popularity of wearable devices and internet of things. He also said that Yahoo does not rule out the possibility of developing wearable equipment on its own, which could be a rare attempt to enter the hardware industry.
Specifically, on the first foray into wearable equipment, Yahoo chose to hand over the task to a 19-year-old teenager: Nick D ' Aloisio.
So the question is, who is Nick D ' Aloisio?
Do you remember the summly of the News Digest we reported earlier? Nick D ' Aloisio, who dropped out of high school in a group that created this fast-food consumer-style article for the era of information explosion, and sold it to Yahoo in 2013 at $30 million, Summly became the Yahoo News digest that automatically sums up daily news and gives contextual links (yahoo News Digest). Nick D ' Aloisio is now a college student at Oxford University who usually learns computer and philosophy at school and is a product manager at Yahoo on vacation.
Apple has chosen Yahoo News Digest as a collaborative application on Apple's watch, which will be launched next year. Yahoo will also develop another version of Yahoo News Digest for the product of this wrist-and-size screen. Nick D ' Aloisio will take part in the development project, and he believes wearable devices will be the next major platform for users to push information.
In an interview with the Financial Times, the 19-Year-old said future users would use wearable devices such as eyeglasses to receive the main information, not just newsletters, but also intellectual information. People may even ask the wearable device, "What is the food I'm eating," and "what's that person doing opposite me?" But he also noted that wearable devices such as Apple Watch still needed applications that would make consumers feel the need to use them. The size of Apple's watch screen determines that the watch itself will not fit more than 20 apps, so app developers are bound to get into a fight.
Nick D ' Aloisio Rethinking the design of news applications for watches, saying that the habit of using watches is a quick sweep of the surface. This short-lived but high-frequency interaction habits will bring new user experience and design challenges. News applications may require shorter summaries and more abstract news content to accommodate faster fast-food consumption by users.