Hey this is the Daily Overpass, my name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today, lets answer the question - will apps become obsolete?
Last week I was in a meeting with somebody, it was a technology person, and we were talking
about - I was telling her about Overpass and how me make apps and all that kind of stuff.
She said "oh really?
Is there are a real need for that?
Because apps are on their way out, right?"
And I said, "well, I don't know if apps are on their way out", and she goes "yeah, there's
a new one, what's it called...", and I said "progressive web apps...PWA's", she said "yeah,
that's the one.
I heard that's the new thing coming in".
So I said "yes, but most people don't know what that is, and everyone's going to the
app store.
And I do think PWA's will be big in the future but we're not there yet."
Hopefully we will get there because it sounds like a really good opportunity, but I don't
know.
Then she said "don't you think apps will be obsolete in the future?"
And this is not the first time I've heard this question.
People will say "do you think apps will become obsolete?"
Due to whatever...progressive web apps, or people are downloading them less over time
and all this kind of stuff.
It's difficult to answer that question because the whole company is Overpass Apps.
We make mobile applications, everything runs pretty well, there's lots of people who need
applications, and I always compare it to the web.
I can remember when people were saying that websites were dead.
Like, after the dotcom bust back in 2002, everyone was saying "oh, you missed your boat
on the million-dollar website whatever."
But websites still continued as the useful tools that they were.
You have a few big overnight successes...well not overnight successes, huge successes, but
you also have a lot of really useful things and we are much more tame when we think about
websites.
In apps, there's still a bit of hysteria about apps.
I still get people call me up saying "I've got this billion dollar idea!", and they wanna
share the idea with me and everything.
But, to be completely honest with you, do I think that apps will become obsolete in
the future?
If I had to say, my own self-interest aside, yeah i think they might do!
I think that apps may be obsolete in the future but we're not there yet.
So, we're working on this one application for one of our clients and they have a front
end and we deal with their API and everything like that.
So, I've been working on the app, or my team has been working on app, so we've been checking
the data from the API, we we make it change on the front end, all that kind of stuff.
But I didn't have access to the front end, so I said "actually can you send me a link
to the front end, because it would be good if we had a test system we could do this quicker
rather than have to go through you every time".
Standard stuff.
So they sent me an executable, like a windows desktop app. so I was like, man it's been
a long time since I've used one of those!
I had to run a virtual machine to run it, run the executable and everything like that
and I thought, I can remember doing VB6 apps for the desktop thinking "hey, the web is
really cool but it just can't do the things that a desktop app can do!".
I though there's some things the web is good for, but the stateless nature off it, the
fact that you have to submit and post back, all this kind of stuff, sometimes you just
need a desktop application.
Especially when you have lots of transactions and all that kind of stuff.
But over time, the web gets better and better at taking over some of the things that we
thought had to be done on desktop, and that might be the same with apps.
We're already seeing it with progressive web apps.
So I always do this thing with clients - I name the things that an app can do that a
website can't, you know, the local storers, the GPS, the camera access - all this stuff
is becoming available in PWA's.
So I do think at some point the app itself, unless you have something that's like a game
that needs high processing power or a lot of computing power and you need to be able
to write things close to the metal and everything, I think that's gonna be the case.
But we're not there yet.
PWA's are something that a lot of people don't know about.
I mean, we're still at the point now where I've had clients that were confused about
the fact that the app is not on the app store if you give them a PWA, if you explain it
to them.
And I've tried to explain what PWA's are to potential clients saying "you know what this
should be?
A website."
Because it takes space on the app store, they get 30%, it's hard to get approved, all this
kind of stuff, and they still wanna do the app.
They still think the apps are better.
but I think it's more of a public perception thing, i think we've all been trained by our
phones to go to the Play Store or to go to the App Store.
So, I do think apps will become obsolete in the future, I could be wrong!
Web didn't become obsolete, or sorry, desktop apps are still there, you still have desktop
apps, but not nearly to the case that you did before!
So that's just my opinion.
And also, the app stores are not like the web.
I always compare the two, I see a lot of similarities between the two of them, but the app stores
are owned by Apple, owned by Google, we're kind of at their mercy, and the web is free
and open.
Anyway, that's my opinion, what do you guys think?
Do you guys think that apps will be obsolete in the future?
For me, I don't think they're gonna be obsolete in the near future obviously, otherwise I
wouldn't wanna still be doing apps for clients, we wouldn't be more profitable now than we
have been in the last several years, but eventually I think it will be.
So anyway, let me know what you guys think.
Do you agree/ Do you disagree?
Anyway, that's it for today, I'll talk to you tomorrow!
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