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From ordering lunch or dinner to booking flight tickets, mobile apps have revolutionized virtually all industries. The world has nowadays become so small that it can literally fit in the palms of your hands. You can get almost any product or service you want simply through a few clicks on your mobile device. An increasing number of mobile companies and apps now offer just about everything and here are 6 mobile apps and businesses that are disrupting their industries in a big way.
Mercato – Your Groceries Delivered
Nowadays, you don’t have to physically go to the grocery store to do your grocery shopping. Mercato is an easy-to-use platform of e-commerce, marketing, and service tools that is tailored for high-end grocers to facilitate the smooth online grocery delivery right to your doorstep.
Basket – Compare Prices on Your Grocery Shopping
The basket was established only recently as a means for shoppers to compare prices from across their city so that they can select precisely which store to shop for the best bargain. The more you use this app, the more your grocery shopping patterns will change. This is due to the fact that the concept behind this app is to assist customers to find what they need, at the lowest price, and in the most means possible.
Uber – Transport and Ridesharing
Since ride-sharing mobile apps hit the market about 10 years ago, they have really transformed the way people travel around. No wonder traditional taxi drivers in major cities have been unhappy with ride-sharing apps taking away a huge chunk of their market share. As more companies take up the ride-sharing app model, it will be interesting to see how these firms adapt to ensure no one disrupts them as they have disrupted the traditional taxi industry.
Venmo-Mobile Banking and Money Lending
Mobile payment applications are not necessarily new or unique, but apps such as Venmo and Wave have come to be an integral part of our mobile phones because of the speed and simplicity they offer when it comes to making payments. Nowadays, you don’t have to always carry cash in order to settle bills at the local grocery or restaurant. Instead, you can simply pay for bills via this app. While companies such as Venmo are not doing anything new, they have certainly disrupted the banking industry. Most banks nowadays have a mobile app for mobile banking and money-lending, with some even allowing for cross-bak transactions.
Waze- Maps
Waze, which was acquired by Google recently has transformed the world of traditional maps as well as map apps. Long gone are the days when you had to print several pages of instructions just to find your direction. Now you can do everything from the palm of your hands. The app crowdsources users’ information, allowing users to inform others when there is road construction, heavy traffic along a particular route, or an accident. You can even inform other road users whether the police are on the roadside at a certain point. Waze has certainly disrupted an industry that only used to tell you the direction you want to go.
It’s no secret that certain industries have been changed by mobile apps and devices. The big question, however, is who will be next? Looking at the pace with which technological innovations are moving, it is inevitable that more industries will witness even greater disruptions in the future.
