In “The Mobile Browser Is Dead, Long Live The App”, Forbes it shows how in today’s society many people are stepping away from the mobile browser and heading towards apps. “Looking at breakdown of that time, users are living in their smartphone’s applications. That gaming requires apps is a given, but almost every other area provides the user with a choice – go for an app to access the data or go to the web.” this shows how smartphones have taken over how people get their information, there’s an app for almost everything. It has shifted what we thought from the beginning on what technology has advanced us to do. An example of applications being the go to for many today, according to “The Rise of Chat Apps”, Wired, it mentions the start of the kik app. The app gained most attention from high school and college kids because it offered something other applications don’t, the chance to be secretive. “Kids don’t want to be on a network where there parents can so easily monitor their communications.” apps live these gain the attention of many because of this attractive feature. When it comes to digital currency we see how it has been used. In “The Fierce Battle for the Soul of Bitcoin” by Wired it speaks about how bitcoin worked, its separation from bank accounts its user had more freedom to do whatever they wanted. “Like the Internet, software developers were free to build things on top of it that they never could with MasterCard or Visa, which carefully control access to their networks.” According to “How Bitcoin Ends”, Douglas Rushkoff, it mentions how Bitcoin’s strategy came to its end. ”Likewise, bitcoin was intended to break the monopoly of the banking system over central currency and credit. But, in the end, it will turn into just another platform for the big banks to do the same old extraction they always have.” this basically speaks about how bitcoin had a plan all along that they believed was going to be successful but instead it was a flop because it’s almost impossible to become bigger than the banking system.
Mar 25