day 843: There Should Be An App For This - 2012

"Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does."


I am off this morning to South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) in Austin, TX. This interactive festival has established itself as the premier launching pad of interactive technology start-ups so we will see what will come out of this year. With that said, it made sense for me to revise something from 2011 for today.


"There should be an 'App' for this." Thirty six months ago, this was becoming a popular saying as people played with their iphones and thought about their soon to arrive ipads. three years later, as we have our ipad 1 & 2 and wait on our ipad 3 and we have upgraded our iphones to newest generation, we say less often, "there should be an App for this" because today, there seems to be just about an "App" for everything so we say more often, "there is an App for that." In actuality, it's probably about a few hundred thousand Apps that have been created for the Apple platform and then a fraction of that many for the Android operating system. Still, it now seems that there is an App for about anything, other than some of the more mundane things we may still do at work. But, watch out, those are coming soon. It may well be soon that an ipad for work becomes standard issue. As all of these innovations continue to occur it is important that we stay on top of what is new and that we understand what is coming next. To be most competitive in our field or industry, we have to be ahead of the competition and in touch with the next generation of talent that walks through our doors. To not be in touch with the future is to live in the past. There is no App for telling and understanding the future. That is on us to do.

An App is also a publishing tool that allows a developer and innovator to share his/her creation across the users of a platform and spread this software virally through sharing it with their social graph. Technology is the tool for evangelizing a resource, tool, service, etc. If you think about it, God was ultimately the first App developer in that He created all of us to be the spreaders of His Good News. We are God's Apps and as we are told in in 1 Chronicles, we are to be the publishers of his glory. Think about this today and know that God is looking at us and saying in all of the situations that we are given and face, "Here is my app for this."


Reference: 1 Chronicles 16:24 (New Living Testament)