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December 5, 2005
Wireless Device Primer
Another article in the latest issue of CIO Magazine (You can subscribe for free on their site) is about "Mastering Mobile Madness". There's a great chart called "Your Mobile and Wireless Device Primer". I can't find the online version but it's on page 80 of the Dec. 1, 2005 issue. Print does charts so well - grin.
Anyway, a couple of facts from this piece:
1. "Last year (2004) marked the first year that converged mobile device sales surpassed those of regular handheld PDAs."
2. "The 180 million wireless subscribers in the United States used more than 1 trillion mobile minutes last year. Worldwide there are more than 1.5 billion wireless subscribers."
3. In May 2005 notebook sales topped desktop sales for the first time."
People are voting with their pocketbooks. And they're voting for mobility. Consumers are just another form of library user. We ignore this trend at our peril.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at December 5, 2005 5:06 PM