With digitization, there has been a move into the mobile app development. There exist millions of apps that have been developed for the sake of several functions. Apps are too numerous for even users to keep up. In the past, there have been attempts at commercializing the use of apps. Developers have attempted to cost the downloading of apps and make users pay before apps are downloaded. This has been a colossal failure as users have outrightly refused to pay to download apps. The only sector enjoying this sort of commercialization would be the gaming and entertainment sector. This has forced developers to drop that feature on most of their apps.
On a general note, most users do not usually engage in active usage of more than five (5) on a regular basis. This is largely limited to their messaging, media, mobile finance, transport and mobility, and purse apps. Hence, other apps tend to get neglected. Functionality begins to experience limitation of usage.
With regards to cloud activities of apps, users are forced to operate independent subscription packages for all their respective platforms. There is a difficult conundrum of having to deal with mobility of app data. Several incidents might possibly occur that would require a swift transfer of data from one point to another. This often times quite a heinous task to achieve.
The Cardstacks Reorientation Idea
Users are meant to be the central focus of applications. A decentralization approach by Cardstacks attempts to push focus from a centralized platform to one in which all workflow begins to revolve around the users in question.
App functionality interface usually adopts a silo - type basis of accumulation. This vertical style usually cannot keep up with the fast expanding rate of development of the internet market as a whole. Thus, over time, it becomes cumbersome to both navigate and experience.
The user interface being proposed would move for a new card-based interface. This helps in demystifying the erstwhile complex user interface common with workflows.
Team and Advisors
The team is saturated with men and women of high repute in their previous fields of study. A work of unquestionable ingenuity that would be capable of standing the test of compromise and time would have to be the birth child of individuals highly dedicated to the vision and dream of seeing a disruptive revolution in the outside industry, courtesy of the blockchain technology. The team behind this work are perfect epitomes of these descriptions. They are:
CHRIS TSE, Founder & Head of Product, Cardstack Project;
ED FAULKNER, Lead Developer, Cardstack Project;
HASSAN ABDEL-RAHMAN, Sr. Blockchain Developer, Cardstack Project and Monegraph;
JUSTIN THONG, Data Scientist, Cardstack Project;
KEN ROSSI, Lead UX, Cardstack Project
Conclusion
Disruptive decentralization of the internet space as we know it is invariably going to happen. How we handle it would determine how it affects us all. Restructuring the way apps and dApps are incorporated into the market by developers as well as creating a reward system, in which participants and users can actually earn for their contributions (mobile apps development) on the platform. The future is thus here!
Useful links
WEBSITE: https://cardstack.com/
WHITEPAPER: https://cardstack.com/whitepaper.pdf
ANN THREAD: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2768237.0
TELEGRAM: https://telegram.me/cardstack
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/cardstackproject
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/cardstack
MEDIUM: https://medium.com/cardstack
REDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cardstack/
WRITER: ambition1
BITCOINTALK PROFILE: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1797812;sa=forumProfile
