Bottom
line of this FT article - How Silicon Valley discovered the rest of
America ‘The political situation has made Silicon Valley truly interested in
the real lives of its users’ . https://www.ft.com/content/2a2962aa-5b88-11e7-b553-e2df1b0c3220?mhq5j=e1
Is that key executives of some OTTs are trying
to get closer to the people and understand better their needs, for example what
has been in the impact of globalization, mobile technology in their lives and
other insights; and believe is actually a good point, for those (like me) who
have had the opportunity to travel extensively we should get closer and
understand people “ in the street”, as I
remember my last business trip back from Guatemala, some years ago, at the
airport there a was an older person also queuing who seemed bored and started
an interesting conversation that seemed like a live ‘network society’ advert;
after he asked and I explained that worked in ‘cellular networks’ (just to
avoid getting into more complex explanations), this person explained, “oh! Yes!
We actually need to give a big thanks to guys like you, now we get cellular connections
from the farms in rural areas in Guatemala, we can get instant prices for our
products (i.e. USD per kg of tomatoes) from different places in USA, start
deals by sending pictures and close deals over the phone almost on real time,
this is a great achievement!! However,
he went on, saying that they would like their potential customer to get closer
to their real products, have the sense of weighting products, feel the texture,
he asked me if the mobile phone could convert somehow the physical characteristics
of the product in the other end to become tangible. I Remember this
conversation like a nice anecdote and in the end as the article I mentioned in
the beginning, I conclude how far we are really are of the real needs end
subscriber have!!, we still live in a “one-way supply chain World” (even those
star, best of the universe OTTs) where
people are developing APPs and systems very far away from the real needs for
different segments of people, if at least they could get closer to people
for each profession, range of age, and per geographical region, and fulfill their
specific (connectivity-related way of living) needs, concerns, requirements, probably the daily life of those segment of people
would be improved and that gap (social, economic, technological) that exist now
days would be stopped and be reversed why not?.
Disclaimer: this is only a personal opinion, it doesn’t represent any link or interest with any company, past, present or third party.
Disclaimer: this is only a personal opinion, it doesn’t represent any link or interest with any company, past, present or third party.
