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5. 2005: the year of the mobile web
2006: the year of the mobile web
2007: the year of the mobile web
2008: the year of the mobile web
2009: the year of the mobile web
2010: the year of the mobile web
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2009: the year of the mobile web
2010: the year of the mobile web
19. 76% of mobile phone users don't use their
mobile to access the Internet
• “It’s too expensive.”
• “My mobile is not capable.” (60%!)
• “Why would I?”
• “I don’t get it (and hey, I don’t care).”
Essential Research
20. 3 Millions of users entering the
market in the next few years
21. The launch of the iPad
brought about an interesting
discussion
• “Most people don’t need a computer.”
• “The iPad is the uncomputer for the
masses.”
• “Should the Apple iPad be considered
a computer?”
• “My mom's next computer is going
to be an iPad.”
• “Apple foresees a future in which the
iPad is the default way people do
what they now do with computers.”
26. “The explosion of social
networks in the past few
years is just the Web
catching up with life,
since people are
naturally social.”
Eric Schmidt, Google
28. “Facebook dominates UK mobile use.”
Accounts for nearly half of all the time people in the UK spend
going online using their phones.
GSMA/Comscore
December 2009
Facebook 2002
Google 395
Microsoft 165
Orange 138
AOL 106
UK number of mobile minutes spent (millions)
29. – You don't know what you're missing until you get a taste –
33. Focus on mobile services
• communication (social
networking!)
• integration and synchronisation
• mobile payments
• context-aware
• mobile health
• ...
48. Gartner mobile application store predictions
Numbers in billions.
2009 2010 2013
Downloads 2,5 4,5 21,6
Revenue $4,2 $6,8 $29,5
49. + -
• users know where to go • revenue share
• closely monitored: secure • app store owner decides
• don’t worry about payment, • slow publishing process
traffic, ... • ...
• top lists generate more
downloads
• ...
* don’t worry: the app store is only one way to distribute your service