Dawn of the Post App Era

“Skate where the puck's going, not where it's been".


In the book “Total Gretsky”, author Bob McKenzie credits The Great One’s father, Walter with this sage advice. The ability to quickly find the open ice is critical to this type of strategic thinking. Successful entrepreneurs and their ivestors are expert at this.

Dawn of the Post-App Era?

When it comes to mobile investing, seasoned VC’s are thinking tools and platforms, not the next Angry Birds.

Last month during the Annual Silicon Valley App Conference, Jay Jamison a venture partner at BlueRun Ventures indicated how hard it is to zero in on the right investment by opining “I think the bar is raising”.

Jamison says he looks hard for tools and platforms that support the development and deployment of applications.

Somewhere out there Steve Jobs has a Cheshire Cat Grin on his face.

Jobs stubbornly insisted that the widely-used Flash technology wasn’t good enough for the iPhone and iPad, and instead favored the newer HTML5 standard, which is iOS, Android, RIM and MS Mobile compatible.

And HTML5 allows web developers to deliver a better SmartPhone experience than an app . . . without an app. Check your current browser’s (SmartPhone or Desktop) HTML5 supportability rating here.  You may be shocked.

Gone in a Flash?

ZD Net reports (Flash is dead. Long live HTML5) that “Adobe’s love affair with its Flash format has come to an end.” The report goes on to note that Microsoft is bailing on its Flash competitor Silverlight.

Will this result in a huge boost in rates of adoption (market penetration) for HTML5?

One camp argues a slow path to adoption primarily because the HTML5 standards are still in the development stage. The WC3 Working Group estimates final recommendations on standards will be issued in 2014.

But Elevations Partners’ incredibly tech savvy co-Founder and Director Roger McNamee has already made a bee-line for the open ice.  Watch his recent presentation at a Paley Center for Media Conference from FORA TV .