I was reading some statistics the other day. How would these types of numbers make you think about the type of services you were designing and about how your business might focus itself:
- E-commerce accounts for £44billion of the total UK retail sales
- There are more people on the planet with mobile phones than toothbrushes
- More tablet devices are predicted to be sold in 2015 than desktop and laptop computers combined
- Facebook would be the 3rd or 4th largest nation by population
Apple’s iPhone and iPad lines reported sales of 51m and 26m respectively. The global PC market in 2013 was 316m units.
I guess we have finally embraced this mobile living. The road warrior is no longer the exception to the rule, the mobile transactor is the rule.
As a programmer in earlier years, we always heard about ‘the fallacy of the reliable network’. Never being able to rely on a network connection was the order of the day. In this massively mobile world we now see, what are the modern equivalents? Or have the same old fallacies – the reliable network, the network is secure, etc… have they changed at all or do they remain, just as they were?
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