2011年9月28日 星期三

The next? How does cloud computing make a profit after the successes of social websites? I


How long do you use your iPhone or Android Phone everyday? I think most of the handset devices users always plug on internet and use their Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn...etc. When you take bus or wait your train, you can see the people around you using their handset devices connecting with their friends or playing the Angel Birds! The cloud computing changes our life greatly and it is becoming a part of life. Especially, those social websites change your social communication channels and network. They also become the stats on the investment markets and really make a profit for their shareholder! We know the cloud computing will be the trend in IT area but who is the next super stat? Maybe it grows up from the Apple Inc.!

No more free

The Apple Inc. creates a success business model: “Apple App store”. It is not a new idea but it lets the users start being used to pay for digi-contents(musics, software, news, or games). Even you can download thousands of software for free, many people don’t mind paying 3 or 5 dollars for downloading interesting software in App Store! You also can download any software you want in Google Market. But sometimes you don’t like playing game or using some software with ads. The internet account with the paying system is the basic way in online shop and you have to use the cloud computing service. It becomes more difficult to do piracy and easier to pay for using.The customs are staring to be used to pay money for cloud computing. I think platformlize the cloud computing is a good way for making a profit. But it isnt fair competition for beginner. If you wants to build your own platform, you have to get big amount of users in the being stage. For example, telecom companies, cell phone brands companies, social websites, or entry websites, they have good chances to build their own platforms. Although it is too difficult to join this game for new players, there are many good opportunities for them in the free markets.

The customs are staring to be used to pay money for cloud computing. I think platformlize the cloud computing is a good way for making a profit. But it isn’t fair competition for beginner. If you wants to build your own platform, you have to get big amount of users in the being stage. For example, telecom companies, cell phone brands companies, social websites, or entry websites, they have good chances to build their own platforms. Although it is too difficult to join this game for new players, there are many good opportunities for them in the free markets(Google Market or App store).

Small but big force
The free online markets provide great soil to grow up new businesses. This business model replaces the traditional IT industry. You don't need building "The Seventh Fleet" but you can flight with big antagonists and gain a large market. The customs don't care which company you are. They forcus on how interesting and useful. Accounting to those reasons, I think the mobile games and personal optimization software maybe become the easiest way to build new business in cloud computing age. You might think "It's not new ideas on IT industry." Probably, games and personal softwares have developesd for over 15 years. But it isn't easy to build your own software and make profits from your works in the "PC Age". For the Android System software enginners, it is not so difficult to develop some small software and the most imporant thing is that you can use Google Market making profits easily. And so on the Apple App store system is the same. The two biggest handsets user group provide the same business environment to their users and any developer. It will become more common to use cloud computing. Even the attitude of cloud computing for the two companies is quite different. It dosen't matter for user or developer. You just put your softwares to the online markets and the users move their fingers, download the ones they want, then pay 1~5USD by their online payment account. Those actions happen in few mins and all the people get what they want! The software market might be despersed but few software will be much more powerful in this age.