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Mobile – What’s the Future?

Posted by Don Peppers on July 23, 2009 in Fortune Brainstorm: Tech

Had a great panel discussion out on the Viennese Terrace of the hotel, with senior execs from Google, Sybase, Intel, and AdMob.

One of the more interesting issues discussed extensively was the eco-system of applications development, which is characterized by a few very large players, such as Google, Oracle, and Microsoft, but also by thousands of mom-and-pop developers now. It is a thriving system, which ensures that we will all be able to do more and more with our phones, from paying for things directly, to locating ourselves more efficiently. AdMob, for instance, said they have about 2000 developers, hundreds of which are 1 or 2-man shops.

Just as an aside, in a comment that indicates how huge Google is, Vic Gundotra (Google’s VP of Engineering) said that Google monitors its system for spam spikes – when they see a big spike in Web traffic in a particular country they often think it’s an example of spam. But recently they had a big spike in India that turned out to be the result of one of the carriers there, AirTel (?), which had offered a special deal on internet time, and when people aren’t actually charged for usage they dramatically increase their browsing.

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One Response to “Mobile – What’s the Future?”

Pam Miller

24. Jul, 2009

what are the more interesting side commentaries you’re hearing in the hallways, during the breaks, at dinner and in the bar?

Pam

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