BeforeProfit

What we saw today was the spark. The explosion will continue for twenty years. We will all feel the warmth.

What we saw today was the beginning of two-decades of mobile domination by Apple. What Microsoft and Windows was to the desktop, Apple and Touch will be to mobile.

And while mobile platforms have been around for a while, they never really gained passionate traction. Palm sorta had it for a while. Windows Mobile has been getting better. RIM is the current choice for business email on the go.

But just like there were a lot of players in the portable music space, there were no clear leaders. Until Apple came to town.

The same thing is happening today in the mobile space. Palm, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Symbian. They’ve been players, but no one has broken out big. No one has managed to grab both the business and consumer markets like Windows did on the desktop. Until Apple came to town. At least that’s my prediction.

Apple has the superior product, the big momentum, the cool, the lust, the business hooks, the consumer hooks, the customer experience, the interface, the design (interface and industrial), the smooth development environment, the vision.

And, maybe the secret key to it all, they have the commercial platform that makes it possible for a developer to actually sell, distribute, and update their software with the flip of a switch. And don’t forget the customer experience revolution — buying and it-just-works installation of iPhone software will be as one-click easy as buying music from the iTunes store. It’s all wrapped into one beautiful package. A package that only Apple can deliver.

This is brand new big shit. It all started today.

Via 37signals.

While I don’t quite agree with the 20 year part, I do feel like this is going to up the competition bar for a lot of other companies. With this SDK (Software Development Kit- Lets people make their own programs) release, Apple is now in the Business Enterprise market and will put even heavier competition on Blackberries. It dosn’t stop there though, Apple could now be a direct competitor for mobile gaming platforms. I feel like they could very easily turn into the wii of mobile gaming. Apple has a piece of hardware that has touchscreen, accelerometer, camera, microphone, stereo sound, hardware video acceleration, vibration and a keyboard - not much that you couldn’t make with that.

I’m very excited to see where this goes. And my regrets of going to the iPhone from my Blackberry Curve vanished back when they added IMAP e-mail support.