There is one enduring characteristic of market expectations for all mobile platforms beginning with 3G: observers always say many exotic new applications and use cases will emerge. We have been wrong about almost all of them, at least in terms of applications used at scale. That is not to say new use cases will fail to develop. That has happened with every next-generation mobile platform.
Since 3G was launched, and expectations about new use cases were high, reality has been less robust than expected. That is not to say there were no new applications used widely. On the other hand, most of the more-futuristic apps did, in fact, not develop.
Here’s one expectation for 5G new use cases, with the early applications including entertainment video and faster internet access. In the early days of 4G, machine-to-machine use cases were predicted. We now call that “internet of things,” but 4G did not lead to widespread M2M deployment.
New lead apps and use cases will emerge in the 5G era. But we might ultimately be surprised by what happens.
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