If BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is correct, tablets will be obsolete in just five years. He made that bold statement at the Milken Institute Conference in Los Angeles yesterday, and as Bloomberg reports, he explained, “In five years, I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such.
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BlackBerry CEO Predicts Tablets Will Be Obsolete by 2018
9 out of 10 Lawyers Use Mobile Devices to Do Their Jobs [Infographic]
Nearly nine out of 10 lawyers (89%) use smartphones and one in three lawyers (33%) use tablets for law-related tasks while they’re away from their offices. That is just one of the statistics from The Rise of Mobile for Lawyers infographic created by MyCase and published by The Mac Lawyer, Ben Stevens.
Lawyers report that they are using mobile apps to do their jobs in increasingly large numbers.
Android and iOS User Data Key to Mobile Development Success
Did you know that Android has a 53% share of the smartphone market while the iPhone holds just a 36% market share? At first glance, you might think since there are more Android users, that’s where you should invest your mobile development time and budget. But wait. Market share doesn’t tell the full story.
According to comScore research, Android has a greater number of users in every category of mobile activity tracked, including using social media, accessing news, and visiting online retail sites, but iPhone users are more engaged with each of these activities.
FTC Releases Consumer Protection Video for Mobile App Developers
As a follow up to Newstex’s release of its free ebook, “The Publisher’s Guide to Mobile and Tablet Development,” it’s important to review the legal considerations that go into mobile app development and marketing.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offers a free guide, Marketing Your Mobile App: Get It Right from the Start, which covers many of the legal issues that affect mobile app promotion.
Mobile Apps Predicted to Generate $25 Billion in Revenue in 2013
Just how big is the mobile app market?
The answer is $25 billion in 2013 according to ABI Research.
That’s just a drop in the bucket compared to what’s coming in 2018 when ABI Research predicts mobile app revenue will climb to $98 billion.
Not surprisingly, 65% of the predicted 2013 mobile app revenue will come from devices running the Apple iOS, 27% from Google’s Android, and 8% from other mobile platforms.
Nearly 9 out of 10 People Would Rather Go without Water Than Their Mobile Apps
How mobile app dependent are we? That’s one of the questions that Apigee, the API company, wanted to find out when it surveyed 760 smartphone owners in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Germany. According to the 2013 Mobile App Behavior Survey results, most users can’t go a day without their apps.
The survey also revealed some differences between mobile apps between countries, but overall, the dependency on mobile apps is shared across smartphone users from each of the five countries included in the study.
If Only Every Day Were Christmas Day in the World of Mobile Apps
As you might expect, there was a massive number of iOS and Google Android device activations and mobile app downloads on Christmas Day 2012. Mobile was hot for holiday gift giving, and recipients couldn’t wait another day to start using their new devices.
According to research by Flurry, 17.4 million new iOS and Android devices were activated on December 25, 2012.
The Future of Digital is Mobile – Sort Of
In a new presentation from Business Insider, The Future of Digital, CEO Henry Blodgett and his Business Intelligence team provide a comprehensive overview of how the digital landscape has changed in recent years and what’s coming in the years ahead of us. While the future certainly focuses on mobile content publishing, consumption, and advertising, the future of digital isn’t only mobile.
Mobile Americans Consume More News from More Sources
A new report from Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The Economist Group reports that half of U.S. adults have a mobile connection to the web through a smartphone or tablet, and that mobile connectivity has them consuming more news and from more sources than ever before. In short, instead of turning away from traditional news sources like radio, print, and television, Americans are becoming multi-platform news customers thanks to the proliferation of mobile connectivity.
iOS 6 Is Here – Is Your Mobile App Ready?
The biggest and most anticipated releases from Apple since the original iPhone debuted happened this week when iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 (with iOS 6) rolled out on Wednesday and Friday, respectively. Apple shipped over 1 million iPhone 5 devices and many more were sold in stores today. It is expected that Apple will sell at least 10 million iPhone 5 devices by the end of the month.