Are You App’solutely Sure You Are on the Right Track?

I am pretty sure we wont remember when it got to us, when it got to be part of our daily lives. Once you woke up, you picked up the paper and browsed through the news. All of a sudden we are writing, we are tweetin’. We write about others and we @mention and we use #hashtags, we are using symbols, hieroglyphics? We are curators, limited to 140 characters regardless of whatever it is we would like to say. We love to update our status, what we are thinking, what we are doing, where we are. We are selling our personal information but we are not getting paid; we’re facebookin’.

We buy phones we can customize, we buy “smartphones”. We load hundreds of apps and we spend countless hours on each one them. We engage in long term data contracts, gigabytes is our new gold; forget 1,500 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, that’s history.

There is a lot to question about the future of voice as an application, an “over-the-top” service now? With speculations that apple for example should be looking into acquiring a mobile carrier placing FaceTime, its video and voice communications platform as the center of the iPhone, it simply blows my mind. It opened up my eyes, it makes so much sense.

Come to think about it, really, there would be no voice plan on your mobile phone service; no voice on a mobile phone! Of course not, the data-only service plan with access to hundreds thousands of apps already available, music and video streaming, VoIP becomes another native service, running just as your highly acclaimed Angry Birds game or even Facebook. Voice, as we know, it’s for singing; VoIP is for talking. Scary but true.

And so, the voice mail goes; yes you guessed it, it will go too. The so much popular service, used by so many for such a long time will eventually disappear. Why? IM. Simply IM. Why call and bother someone when you can just drop a single note: “call me, I need to tell you something.”

So I was just thinking, are we really, app’solutely on the right track?