Last week I lamented in the The Myth of the Mobile Worker that working mobile-0nly at a mobile conference was akin to being in the freak show at the circus. However, as luck would have it, I got a chance to speak with not one, but two individuals who work almost exclusively mobile this past week. From these conversations I was able to glean some great insight and commonalities between our approaches to working mobile-only. Check out Collective Wisdom - Mobile-Only Strategies on The Enterprise Mobility Forum to see what I learned. Post a comment and let me know how you approach working on your mobile device.
Benjamin Robbins is a Principal at Palador, a consulting firm that focuses on providing strategic guidance to enterprises in the areas of mobile strategy, policy, apps, and data. You can follow him on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.
For me to go on Mobile Only, I would have to have a mobile device that’s not only good at consuming content, but effecient at producing content. For the content producing side, Windows 8 could make it closer for mobile devices to become productive working tool for most of office workers; while iOS would lead in creative content production from devices, I think. The mobile device must also work on a platform with information stored in cloud and accessed seamlessly cross devices.
Ming – agree that you have to be able to create content as well as consume to be mobile-only. Have you tried using a bluetooth keyboard/mouse with your current mobile devices?