What will happen in the mobile app market in 2017? Answer by eight experts

ByCristiano Betta

We asked 8 experts who are active in the mobile application industry about the question, "How do you anticipate the growth of the app economy in 2017, how do you anticipate it?" And what they answered is summarized .

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◆ 1: Mr. Vijay Chattha (VSC,WarenessFounder of the)


Mr. Chattha, who launched the application consulting service · VSC and the marketing platform for IoT equipment and hardware software · Wareness, predicts that in 2017, the sympathy for the application will be further enhanced in 2017. Specifically, we see chatbots that meet the needs of consumers, VR technology that can immerse themselves in different cultures, health and medical applications that improve physical and mental conditions, and more.

◆ 2: Sergey Lossev (data saving applicationOpera MaxProduct responsible person of the product)


Since mobile apps that adopt conversational UI such as chat bot are on the rise, Lossev expects to become the trend year of voice interface in 2017. Many high-end applications are expected to develop their own voice interfaces and voice assistants that can be operated only by calling by voice like "Hey Siri", and in the future far away iOS / Android, all the operations are enough with voice That kind of situation will come.

◆ 3: Robert Kwok (ApteligentFounder and CTO)


Mr. Kwok, Apteligent's Chief Technology Officer who develops SDK that can collect and utilize data from applications, thinks that in 2017 VR, AR, Drone, IoT advertisement will be on the market in large quantities. On the other hand, we anticipate that innovative changes can be divided between companies that make effective use of data obtained from customers of their products and those that can not.

◆ 4: Paul Kemp (The App Guy PodcastDistributor of)


Kemp, which distributes popular podcast "The App Guy" by broadcasting content interviewed with application developers and entrepreneurs, censors are terrible Twitter, Facebook manipulating the news feed algorithm, seller rules We believe that the shift to a decentralized business model will start in 2017 from the repulsion that functions are concentrated too much on a single application like eBay that changes frequently.

◆ 5: Shane Wey (MightySignalCEO of the company)


MightySignal CEO Mr. Wey, who develops the SDK to collect and index business service data, As mobile applications grow, needs for mobile companies are also low on developer orientation and more entertaining It is changing. Specifically, categories like data, automation, security, optimization will become more demanding than ever.

◆ 6: Emily Carrion (ApptentiveMarketing Director)


Apptentive's Carrion's 2017 forecast to develop in-app software that gets customer feedback directly from the app will increase customer importance with more brands, not only listen to feedback, We will also be asked to act using. The most successful brands are actively getting feedback from customers and they are said to be deciding products and business based on customer data.

◆ 7: Mr. Alex Muramoto (IonicofDeveloper Advocate)


According to Muramoto, a cloud platform that can manage and schedule apps, it seems that services for developers using WebKit and Safari will start, and said that the experimental contents of web applications by consumer companies will increase significantly It is. Technically, web performance and offline developers can now provide experiences like native apps, and business and methods out of the application store domain and methods and platforms to monetize advanced experiences emerge It is predicted.

◆ 8: Mr. Jeff Kim (NeumobCEO of the company)


Lastly, Kim, the CEO of Neumob, a company that develops the SDK that accelerates the response of applications that summarized this article. As for the forecast of 2017, as VR and AR are used in mobile applications as an early method of using machine learning, he says that the momentum of the next generation mobile application will accelerate.