An App for All Reasons: Enabling Mobility in the Built Environment – Part I
Everyone remembers the first time. Eagerly or anxiously, cautiously or recklessly, everyone remembers downloading and using that first smartphone app. Given the current ubiquity of smartphone applications, it tests one’s sensibilities to remember they didn’t exist eleven years ago. Who is innovating smartphone apps for the built environment, and what benefits might these apps offer to users and specifiers of commercial spaces? ‘App’ wasn’t recognized as a word when Apple launched the App Store. Its inventory on July 10, 2008, was a meager 500 apps. Steve Jobs told USA Today that iPhone users downloaded ten million apps over the first weekend. When the Verge.com asked staffers about their first apps, they replied with a mix of social, productivity and gaming apps. Ideal for the workplace, apps reside in a device small enough to go anywhere, connected enough to operate everywhere and powerful enough to display simple presentations of complex data. …
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