E-commerce had its success and failures and its not a buzzword anymore. Actually, lot of people looks towads amazon.com or ebay for some e-commerce inspiration. So we can come to a safe conclusion that e-commerce will continue to be a growth area if applied carefully in a correct business context. I think the same thing applies to m-commerce as well.

We developers are empowered with myriad technologies to make your mobile devices do all sorts of things for you. But due consideration has to be given to the various limitations pertaining to mobile devices such as small screen size, battery power to name a few. Also why exactly do we use mobiles? I think its mostly to cater to emergency and ‘then and there’ situations. Then its clear that a particular idea which was very successfull and attractive in the e-commerce context will not reap the same expected results in a mobile context with quite a few limitations.

A tour operator can inform the status of a tour package to a client via an SMS message. Its a small bit of information. But will it be worthwhile to try and create a mobile application for tour quotation building? I’m taking a trip to Asia from USA once a year and am i in a real hurry as such that i want to do this with my mobile phone. I’ll prefer to take time and look for a better package and most probably like to see some videos or pictures of the hotels, places etc. So, can my mobile phone browsing a WAP site really beat a nice cool AJAX powered web site with flash presentations of my hotel room.

True that I can develop a ‘mobile tour planner’, but is it really worth the trouble?

So…….I think mobile applications have its own place, a right place in the current buiness context, and you need to be just more than a good Software Developer to carefully select the right business domain which suits best for a small device. Or else we will see a Mobile Bubble the latest equivalent of the e-commerce/Internet Bubble of 2000.