Early Adopters - apps4work/co.a4w GitHub Wiki

Early Adopters that help to get Apps For Work going are in several classes:

  1. If primary beneficiary of any enhancement to the product development process is the consumer of the product, then the first beneficiary in the supply chain are those who design, develop and manufacture those products. In the garment industry, these are the "Brands". The incumbents in the industry have the most to benefit from the application of better algorithms to make better products or make product better, and they have a wealth of data, which is fodder of algorithms. The Feedback Loop is aimed at those Early Adopters.

  2. The software and tools suppliers to the Brands. The incumbents have an incentive to facilitate their customers access to new algorithms and to improve the integration of their toolsets which each other and with new algorithms.

  3. Algorithm providers. Programmer community. Nerds who want something to program that might make them fame and fortune, investors who want a new business to pursue. Those existing "garment/software" companies who are trying to be in the Software-for-garment-product companies but aren't the two established players who dominate that industry nor the one or two that think that can displace those two, but those that think they have good ideas, can't afford to be all-things and favor an open product development environment where they excel at their things and others complete the picture. We the Schema processing algorithms as something to cut your teeth on, and Construction Information as a first industry specific app, and then there's (The Billion Dollar App)[The-Billion-Dollar-App] to go for! We enumerated other opportunities in [Potential Industry Apps](Potential Industry Apps) and Potential-Factory-Apps

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The early 1980's a young kid named Bill Gates fantasized of "a computer in every home". Conventional wisdom at the time questioned this prophecy:

  1. How would you fit a computer inside an ordinary house?
  2. How fit the support team in an ordinary house?
  3. What would an ordinary family use a computer for?

Technology and hot lines to India fixed the first two. But the go-to answer, at that time, for third question was >"Organizing Your Recipes". You spend a lot of time Organizing Your Recipes, right?

Nobody had clue what ordinary people would do with a computer in their home, any more than than would have had a clue >at the inconceivable idea with a computer, vastly more powerful than the mainframes of the day, that fitted in your >pocket, or even the idea that making phone calls would become a minor function of a phone.

And Bill Gates was wrong. There are very few homes in the US that have only one computer.

I have no doubt that we have yet to conceive of the App For Work that will have the most beneficial effect on human life.