the reality is that these devices are creating a highly engaging and rich experience that consumers want on the Internet. Expectations: They will be demanding a more personalized and engaging experience on the Internet. They want the experience not just with mobile devices, but across multiple screens.
We are shipping Flash on more mobile devices than on PCs. We ship more than 800 million on devices. We expect that to hit 1 billion.
In Western Europe, the number of subscribers using 3G have surpassed the 100 million mark, but what’s surprising is that this translates to a low penetration rate of 11.1 percent
The report said some markets were significantly higher, like Sweden, Norway and Italy, which had rates at over 25 percent, but still that doesn’t seem as high as one might expect, and the penetration rates in the U.S. seem to be higher.
In fact the ultraportables are important to this story. They are the real incarnation of what Bill Gates thought the Tablet would be. His 2001 forecast that in five years the Tablet would be the dominant model on sale was wrong. But I'll pick up his wonky prediction cap. I think that it will be true of the ultraportable in five years or so; in 10 years, surely.
And I think that ultraportable, like the Android phones, will be running Linux, because there's a lot of effort gone into developing low-power versions of it already.
Crisp Wireless, which is able to monitor mobile Web traffic through its content platform for media companies and publishers, concluded that traffic driven from carrier decks is falling while mobile search traffic is on the upswing. Nearly 9.5 percent of all mobile web traffic is driven by search engines, of which Google (NSDQ: GOOG) enjoys an 82 percent market share.
n the U.S., 28.4 percent of subscribers now have a 3G device vs. the five largest countries in Europe, which have a combined penetration rate of 28.3 percent.
Within Europe, Italy has the highest 3G penetration at 38.3 percent; Spain comes in second place with 37.2 percent. The U.K. has a penetration rate of 19.9 percent, and Germany has 23.9 percent and France has 12.6 percent.
The U.S. also eclipses the five European countries when it comes to number of users with a 3G device. The U.S. has 64.2 million vs. Europe, which has 63.4 million.
I think this is the beginning of true "always-connected" life-style, which people in this industry have been talking about several years but was not be able to achieve. Apple came into this wireless market in 2007, and suddenly became the leader by enabling this new life-style with iPhone and App Store.