About

I’m fascinated by mobile computing…always have been.  I’m also lucky enough to work in the mobile content industry as a product manager.  While everyone seems to agree that the future of computing (and the web) is in mobile, nobody really knows how it will play out.  I created The Mobile Future as a place to capture all my thoughts on the evolution (and revolution) of mobility.

Consider the following data points as originally noted by Tomi Ahonen: There are over 2.7 billion mobile subscribers in the world (data was as of early 2007…we are surely around 3 billion now).  That’s 3X the number of personal computers, and 2X the number of television sets.  Over a quarter of all internet access is from a mobile device, and twice as many people use text messaging on a phone as use email on the web.  Pretty astounding stuff.

In the future, what will these 3 billion people want to do with their mobile devices?  What new types of services, products, and business models will emerge?  What will the mobile value chain look like in 3 years?  The dirty little secret is that NOBODY knows.  That’s what makes it so great to be in mobile right now.  And these are the questions I want to explore here on The Mobile Future.

Although, I might go off topic every now and then and discuss other important things like Aggie Football :)

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