The decentralization of the smartphone through hardware

The two pictures below illustrate how the smartphone changed our everyday life. We moved from a fully covered desk to one with only a laptop and smartphone.

There are several smart devices, connected to smartphones, that carry out particular tasks on the connected phone. Here I want to give a short overview of some of them.

We simply have

And whereas the Dash is tailored to only one use case (shopping) other products, like the Flic, can be utilized for a broader range of applications.

For even more complex use cases we can use gadgets like the ZEIº or Daily Stack.

Firstly, with portable devices like hearables or wide-range listening devices like the Amazon Echo, these devices will be exactly where and when you need them. They will be ubiquitous.

Secondly, this decentralization will remove a lot of friction. By “friction” I mean that instead of six steps (like in the example for the Dash) you will have only one.

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