> On May 22, 2015, at 10:08 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Next, IBM has jumped on board to developed a few business Apps for the Apple > Watch. At this point functionality is in it’s infancy but within a short > time the Watch will become very important in simplifying our lives.
I had to weigh in on this, John, as I have been following the Apple-IBM app news, being in the mobile app space myself. The apps that IBM has been developing in cooperation with Apple will not impact the average user that much. These are all apps that leverage IBM’s strength in big data and large corporations. None of the apps that has surfaced in this project have much to offer the consumer and the small business owner. I would be pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong, but they all seem to be geared toward solutions that enable big companies to leverage large amounts of data. That is, after all, the world that IBM lives in. IBM has never had much to do with "the little people,” especially since they got out of the PC space. I expect their efforts to only indirectly impact the common mobile device user. Jonathan -- Jonathan Fletcher [email protected] Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group Next Meeting: 5/26/15 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
