Next Mobile Revolution
- 1. The Next Mobile Revolution Rob Glaser Founder & Chairman, RealNetworks
- 2. Fundamental shift in Connected Computing Devices By 2013 There will be more SmartPhones/SuperPhones (1.82 Billion) than PCs (1.78 Billion) (Source: Gartner)
- 3. SmartPhones versus SuperPhones SmartPhone SuperPhone Apps 100s 10,000s or 100,000s Apps per user 2-5 30-50+ User Interaction Method Buttons Touch Display 160 x 120 480 x 320+, w/ HW Acceleration Bandwidth 2G & 3G 3G, 4G, WiFi Web Experience Subset Full Location Awareness Optional Inherent Who Drives Experience Carrier + Handset OEM Carrier + Platform OEM + User
- 5. Social Drives Media Explosion FaceBook 20bn photos online, 2bn added per month 1bn links to video added per week 1.2m photos viewed per second 217m videos per month Flickr 4bn shared photos 0.5bn new per month MySpace 90GB of music, pictures, video per second YouTube 1bn Videos viewed per day PhotoBucket 6.2bn photos shared Individuals like sharing their media online Share photos on social networks Share Photos on other sites Share Video Facebook has an estimated 25 billion pictures, or about ~80 pictures per member Existing frequency of media sharing online Percent of people
- 6. Growth in Rich Media Consumption Slide
- 7. Market Approaching A Tipping Point Behavior and Technology are Converging to drive a Digital Media Revolution Fast/always-on connectivity everywhere and on a plethora of devices Hardware that enables the high quality capture and playback of media across all devices (processing, memory and resolution) Consumers are psychologically ready for digital virtual libraries (no physical goods or delayed physical goods) Market Today
- 8. Tremendous Proliferation of Opportunities “ Digital Persistence” Universal Access across Devices Making Discovery Easy Empowering Social Expression and Engagement Leveraging The Global Nature of These Trends
- 9. Challenges Delivering solutions that scale with variable bandwidth and device capabilities Creating commercial models across an extremely complex value chain Vertical versus horizontal industry structure Media industry adaption of new business models Educating users on privacy and social implications
- 10. Summary The Next Mobile Revolution is both a huge opportunity and a massively disruptive force It will ultimately be bigger than the PC or Web 1.0 or 2.0 revolutions Cross-industry collaboration, while complex, is essential “ We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately”
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