It is Monday morning, you wake up and your butler has your breakfast ready. Your maid has your house neat and tidy… However, then your alarm clock goes off startling you out of your dream world, you find that your dreams have not come true… Instead of your breakfast being ready, you forgot to buy groceries over the weekend. Instead of your house being tidy, you forgot to send the laundry out, therefore, you have a huge pile of dirty laundry and nothing to wear to work.
While your life may seem terrible at this minute, one company has an answer to some of the problems that surface due to the lack of a butler and maid. The company is “Hello Alfred”. The startup company that was started by two college students who found that their study schedule and their study schedule and their cleaning schedule could not coexist.
The company has made it more affordable to enjoy some of the luxuries of having a butler and maid for the middle class. For as little as $32 a week the company will have someone come to your home and tidy it up, the “Alfreds” will also take your laundry to the cleaners and deliver your grocieries.
All of the services that Hello Alfred offers are facilitated through their online service and through phone apps. This is part of a still emerging trend of service companies that use apps to let their companies choose which services to purchase. Companies like Hello Albert and Uber are gaining market share in their industries by appealing to millennials by allowing them to purchase services using their ever present smart phones.
This is a very interesting and growing trend. Businessofapps.com predicts that by 2017 mobile app revenue will grow to over 70 billion dollars. Because of the growing market share of apps in ecommerce Management Information Systems and Information Technology students should take as many courses as they can to learn skills in writing mobile apps.
The landscape of the technology sector is swiftly changing. This is not only changing our way of life at home, it is also changing the way that we will work as technology professionals. Because of the swift changes in technology we should always keep an eye toward the future so that we don’t get left behind as technology moves forward.
Sources
Bloomberg Business Week, January 31, 2o16
Businessofapps.com, November 16, 2015