The Mobile Web: Trends and Strategies in a Fragmented Market

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The Mobile Web

The only ubiquitous platform across all devices.

The market is fragmented

BoBo is key

NFC not pushed in US

security; lack of innovation by carriers?

iPod Touch is likely the killer platform

By WWDC next year will have hybrid applications

Content creators get so little money

No good metrics on ad revenue since 2007

A mobile device not necessarily a phone

iOS and Nokia are largest phone providers

Making money isn't just from the app store

Cannot port the products of S. Korea or Japan to western countries

Fishing games; how would this port over to the US.

Enterprise prefers Blackberry over iOS

Security is the stated concern.

Mistake: Supporting too many devices at once

Mistake: Not treating as software

vs. the web; need to deal with porting

Need to consider road maps, porting , customer support, multipl languages

Consistently popular app: Pocket God

Facebook application

is the most popular.

Lunch

CMO reaction to Facebook

What is the strategy.

State of the iOS Market

Use rates in the US vs. Japan

Lower income demographics will drive growth

Mobile internet consumption rates skewed for iPhone

58m iTunes app store user: 34m iPhone and 24m iPod

Apple users, not Android, drive app purchases and content consumption

Facebook is the most popular app across all devices

Android market share is growing rapidly

Kids drive much of the market

iPod touch is extremely popular with young people

46% of iPod Touch users under 17

Massive application downloads for iPod correspond to school and holidays

Android is increasing it's share mobile web consumption

Android and iPhone app

Only difference is wallpaper and ringtones

People really like their iPhones

Blackberry doesn't have a lot of loyalty

Blackberry outlier app: ESPN

Not much data on iPad usage

iTouch users may transition to iPad

Android tablet devices may growing

Google may release a Chrome tablet in November

Apps be only perphiperally related to business

REI weather conditions

PowerBar and snow conditions

Buy products with phone from RFID + Visa, PayPal

Focus development on iPhone since those are the power users

comScore and adMob US

Nielson is likely US

Communities that Matter

NFC: Nokia will have RFID by later 2010

Apple hires US expert on NFC

iAds (Kevin Stewart)

http://developer.apple.com/iad/

http://9elements.com/io/?p=458

AS2

Would be difficult to upgrade ad agencies to use the new iAd system.

There isn't a current workflow for ads that would have to work as HTML5 applications.

iUI

jQTouch

iAd Tester

This may be a core component in web technologies

Full iPhone and iPad

Check the design guidelines

WWDDC 2010 Sessions: 112, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512

Author: Jason Walsh

j@wal.sh

Last Updated: 2024-08-02 10:10:40