Some observers do not believe there will be any "killer app" for Long Term Evolution and 4G networks. But in a survey of 150 mobile industry executives, "video" and "cloud computing" are candidates for such status, if there are any consensus candidates.
About half of the respondents seem to think 4G mobile service is just "faster" access.
2012 in mobile
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Video and Cloud Killer Apps for 4G?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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