Friday, 28 October 2011

Mobile Internet Is Still In Its Infancy

By Jean Williams


Recently, a report on Internet trends in 2011 discussed the Internet business, e-commerce and mobile devices, and many other issues. Although Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google still maintain a leadership position, Internet companies from China and Russia are emerging, such as Baidu, Tencent, Yandex, are becoming more and more successful and more influential. The analyst said that in 2011 of the market value of the top ten Internet companies, there are two Chinese companies, and 81% of users of the ten sites are not in the United States.

Mobile Internet is in its infancy. IPhone, iPad, Android and other mobile devices have brought about a revolution. But this is just the beginning. According to the law of popularity of the television and other technologies, mobile Internet will also show the fast-growing trend.

In the U.S. and European markets, smart phone shipments have gone beyond the feature phones. In the second quarter of 2011, the number of 3G subscribers in the world grew 35%. This quarter there are 5.6 billion mobile phone users, and only more than 800 million smart phone users. There is still a huge space for development.

The analyst said that the next major breakthrough of the development of interface is audio. Sound is more important than the video and recording is the next generation of the keyboard." In the era before Steve Jobs, the computer is a utilitarian calculation tool.

After the appearance of Jobs, the computer becomes a more and more beautiful thing. We can use thousands of ways to make life better. Over the past few decades, the objective of user interface development is to achieve a natural user interface. Now we have a revolutionary way to interact with the computer: by touch and sound in the phone.

In the second quarter of 2011, in the U.S. market, e-commerce accounted for 8% of the retail industry. Since the first quarter of 2003 to the second quarter of 2011, the U.S. electronic providers have maintained a growth rate well above the retail industry. The analyst noted that e-commerce and mobile commerce will continue to grow and obtain a greater share.




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