Kevin Cawley Ignite Boulder October 2008

The Mobile YearAre we there yet?

Apple – 1992 is the Year๏ Newton

Palm – 1996 is the year

๏ Palm Pilot

Windows Mobile - 2000 is the year๏ NEC Mobile Pro – my year of mobile

BlackBerry- 2002 Now We’re Getting Somewhere๏ Push email - yeehaw

BlackBerry – It’s the Market

iPhone – 2007 is it for sure๏ The Jesus Phone

iPhone – Sorry

Android – 2009?๏ Yeh Yeh… this is it

๏ Maybe…

Android – It’ll Be Big

Randomness

Great Applications - Today

But…

But…

Symbian – 57.1%

RIM – 17.4%

Win Mobile – 12.0%

Linux – 7.3%

iPhone – 2.8% = 0.15% of total market

Palm – 2.3%

**** < 5% of phones shipped ’08 = smartphones

and…๏ We have a great benchmark

Web 2.0๏ Ajax => Javascript + Async Service Calls

๏ Flash

๏ We need something like it in mobile

Mobile Web 2.0๏ Flash Lite – has flat lined

๏ Silverlight Mobile – remains to be seen

๏ Mobile Ajax + Google Gears/some_cache

Google

Microsoft

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Real Winners๏ You

๏ Me

๏ My kids