The Wisdom of The Crowd

Even my Mom mentioned to me this past weekend during Easter dinner that Apple is tracking my every move with my Iphone. It has been quite a sensational story to say the least. Apple will no doubt have to address this concern themselves sooner or later, but the great thing about the Apple model is that there are already developers working on an app that will fix this concern for users.

An App is in development called TISSA (Taming Information Stealing Smartphone Apps) that would allow Smartphone users to block Apps from accessing and recording their location. I’m sure there will be hundreds more to follow. Because Apple and others have given developers the key to their software and made it open source, the fix will be available probably much quicker than what they could have done on their own. The speed of development that happens now was unthinkable 10 years ago, thanks to a thing called entrepreneurship. Now every developer is an entrepreneur thinking about an app or solution to make their life easier. Apple or Android could have never thought of all the innovative apps that are out there on their own. Paypal is another company who has opened their platfrom up to over 60,000 developers. Visit their developer site www.x.com

All this just got me thinking about what other potential problems could be solved if the government, airlines, or the financial services industries opened and unlocked their proprietery systems up for entrepreneuer developers and allowed the Wisdom of the Crowd to takeover?