The fragmentation and diversity of mobile devices is an opportunity, not a problem. Netbiscuits’ Craig Besnoy will illustrate how brands, retailers and publishers can harness device fragmentation and diversity to drive significant mobile revenues.
Presenter: Craig Besnoy, managing director and president North America, Netbiscuits
Our history of innovation has led the market in mobile web development. Now let’s look at the future. Where’s it all going? How’s it going to change? There are 5 key drivers of web development, as we see it, that will continue to reshape where, when, with whom, and how humans interact with web experiences within an ever increasing connected and mobile world... (read out the five categories). Let’s take a close look at each of these trends.The first driver is mobile devices growthCell phones and smart phones have proliferated around the world, connecting people in unimagined ways and bringing millions online who have no other computing device.And now that’s continuing and accelerating with the tablet PC. The iPad was launched in April 2010 and sold 3 million times in 80 days. [http://www.ipadinsider.com/tag/ipad-sales-figures/]In 2011, 64 million tablet PCs will be sold. In 2015, that will grow five-fold to 320 million sold that year, to a cumulative 900 million tablets. [Gartner, "iPad and Beyond: The Future of the Tablet Market," September 2, 2011, ID: G00217137]The growth of mobile device demand and the maturing market is forcing leading vendors to innovate ever faster on device type and rich features, driving even greater speed of innovation and further diversification of the market. This makes keeping up with web development requirements ever more complex and costly for Enterprise who need to maximize reach and scale with superior web experiences.[MMM] The cellphoneistheonly Internet deviceformillionsThe 2nd driver is web accessAs of February 2011, 3G networks have been deployed in more than 165 countries and regions. [http://www.tele.net.in/telefocus/3g-a-beyond-lte-femtocell/item/7915-gaining-traction-global-3g-deployments-pick-up-pace]3G technologies account for over 5 Billion mobile connections today, approximately 89% of the market. [http://www.constellationrg.com/23121/4g-deployment-update-from-4g-americas/]Today, there are 193 4G networks in service with 39 in the Americas. According to experts, about 37% of all Android smart phones are now 4G enabled. [http://www.wcai.com/4g-global-update-2011-10-03.htmlBy 2015 there will be 4x more mobile devices connect to the web than PCsThe 3rd driver is mobile web usage.As more consumers move to mobile devices as their primary means of connecting to the web, their on line behaviors are shiftingTablets and smartphones increase impulse buys by almost £4 billion per year in the UK alone, according to a new study by Rackspace Hosting, August 2012*The move to multi-device and multi-screen web experiences will come with consumer expectations that content will be continuous and relevant creating even more complex web solution requirementsThe fourth trend is Mobile Application Development Enterprise customers are realizing that mobile first solutions need to be scalable and across many platforms, a single native application is expensive and non scalableIndustry analysts predict that their will be a shift from native app strategies to web apps and sites over the next two yearsThe fifth trend is Cloud PlatformsEnterprise spending on cloud infrastructure and services is growing 4X faster than overall IT spending. [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/gartner_2011_spending_forecast]Forrester Research expects the global cloud computing market to reach $241 billion in 2020 compared to $41 billion in 2010. [http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/cloud-computing-market-241-billion-in-2020/47702]By next year, according to Gartner, X% of enterprises will adopt a blend of cloud- and premises-based approaches (update with Web data)to meet web development and services needsCompanies will look to web development vendors who have a wide ecosystem and easy integration into their web and data infrastructure both in the cloud and on premiseSourcesComScore, Stateofthe Internet,Q12012Business Insider, Mar. 2012;http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3#-1http://googlemobileads.blogspot.de/2011/04/smartphone-user-study-shows-mobile.htmlGartner, Mobile Application Development Strategiesfor 2012-2015, May 2012, William Clarkhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/30/gartner_2011_spending_forecastRackspace research was carried out by independent research company, Vision Critical, in August 2012 and involved 2,000 UK adults, representative of UK adult population