Bhardwaj: Software applications fall into lifestyle, management productivity, and operational productivity
Anant Bhardwaj · Why Does The World Need Another Computer? // Anant Bhardwaj, Instabase (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC) · Jan 17, 2019 · at 4:39
Anant Bhardwaj, founder and CEO of Instabase, categorizes computing applications by form factor and primary use case during a presentation at Data Driven NYC.
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“And I think there are, like, three different kinds of applications we use. One we call lifestyle applications, which we use over phones. One is management productivity applications, which we use over phones and tablets. And the other one is operational productivity applications, which we use over desktops.”
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