There was a really interesting article by John Naughton in yesterday’s Guardian technology section. Naughton looked at Mary Meeker’s D10 conference slide deck through the skeptical lens of Harvard academic Jonathan Zittrain, the author of, “The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It.”
Out of Meeker’s 112-slide presentation, Naughton pulled out the following facts: “there are now 2.3 billion internet users worldwide, which is nearly a third of the world’s population and that number is growing at 8% per year. But what’s more startling is there are now 1.1 billion 3G mobile subscribers and that they are increasing at 37% per year. What’s significant about that? Two things: first it means that already a significant proportion of the world’s population is accessing the internet via a mobile phone rather than via a fixed-line connection. Second, smartphones currently account for less than a fifth of all the mobile phones in the world – which means that the market for internet-enabled phones has a lot of room for further growth.”
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