subject: The Dilemma Of Software Developers In India [print this page] Mobile & web software applications: A statistical study
Take a look at the tech arena today the mobile phone industry and the website cluster combined. What do we see? Well, lets just look at the changing consumer trends concerned with software applications in both the areas. If you have been following the trend closely for some years now, you will observe that users are more inclined towards games rather than business applications. And even though both are merely software, the loyalty for each differs a lot and the developers realize that too. So what does this trend teach a web software developer? Well, first and foremost, it is easily noticeable that enterprise applications tend to be utterly boring and repetitive. Not that innovation or fun can do much to repair its image. Games, on the other hand, are far more engaging due to their interactive nature a fact that can be seconded by users and critics ever since those classic games like Tetris and Mario were built.
How did it all start?
The charge of these wonderfully engaging web and mobile applications really began with some of the simplest games on your mobile phone. Once mobile users got hooked to those legendary games like Tetris and Pac-Man, they redefined the history of mobile gaming and simply pushed game developers into such a developing frenzy that things got even more heated up in the market. Now if you browse through an Android phone or an iPhone you will find more games and interactive applications than enterprise business applications. And the reason is quite self-explanatory. The appeal of these applications is greater than the eyesore of business applications that only seem to get more boring with time. And with the current trend, things dont seem to change much in the future.
Where does this lead to?
Much cannot be done about this apathy though. In a market like Indias, one can only succumb to the daily grind and belch out applications that run regularly, unmindful of what users and consumers actually seek to get their hands on. So even if a software developers in India wishes to design and develop a game, he really cant do much about it because there wont be many people looking forward to his work. Time is money and time demands software applications that should be designed to act as the backbone of businesses that seek to creep out of every corner in the Indian map. In other words, the horrible experience of working on enterprise applications continues for all developers.
