It’s not new that in society and the world when something new comes out or catches our interest it is hard for the human mind to resist. Not only does it intrigue us, but the new options usually allow a newly created space for exploration into a world we have no yet experienced. This holds true for cars, women , men and electronics.
Every few years there is a new wave in the electronics world as the latest and the greatest electronic devices sweep the market making their predecessors almost absolute. There is no better example of this than the Apple IPOD Touch, IPHONE and recently the IPAD. Along with these leaps in the world of mobile communication came the world of mobile applications. Now from anywhere you can perform most of the functions of a PC without the hastle of using a web browser. In the article, The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, the idea is placed that the web based internet is dying and will be replaced by these applications which use the web but it is not their primary function. I could not agree more.
I have an IPOD touch and will probably be switching over to an IPHONE when my contract is up in June. I LOVE my IPOD and all of its applications which allow me to maintain a high level of contact with not only the world of social media but Google and everything else in between. Some days I will reach for my IPOD to look up information simply because for a quick task it is a lot easier and faster than pulling up my computer. In a world where instant gratification has become the norm why wouldn’t the population step away from the old version which does not meet its current needs and slide to the newest technologies which will give society it’s fix.
There is no way to tell if this trend of applications use over the actual browser is permanent. Who knows what the developers for Microsoft and Apple are thinking of next to give us the latest and quickest forms of information and entertainment that our culture craves for its addiction. But If things keep going the way they are I can see myself telling my children the days of past in which you used a browser not an app to get online.
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I agree ashley! It is a lot easier to pull out your phone or ipod to quickly look something up than open your computer and wait for you internet to lead (especially in my house!) And that is so true about trying to tell your kids about how it used to be. Can you imagine trying to explain coding!
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