A mobile digital platform emerges to compete with the PC as a business system
It is very fascinating topic, especially for me. I traveled a lot all over the world, working in a hedge fund. I wouldn’t be able to do half of my work and even personal staff not having an iPhone. It makes life and work easier – being able to stay connected everywhere, to make fast business decisions, to be always in control. And it’s interesting to watch how fast technologies develop and give us new options and opportunities.
So how mobile digital platform competes with PC? Basically it is about accessing the Internet through highly portable netbooks and smartphones instead of using traditional desktop or laptops. Currently mobile Internet is the fastest developing form of Internet access. It has been ascertained that mobile Internet users have been grown to 63% of all Internet users by 2013. The fastest growing segment of the computer and cell phone markets are smart phones like the RIM Blackberry, Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy. They can access to the Internet through broadband cellular telephone networks and Wi-Fi wireless local networks. It is identified that more than half of all cell phone sales in the U.S. by 2013 are smartphones. Smartphone sales are growing at 15-20% per year. In this era, there is a straight influence to businesses from mobile digital platform. As a result of that working activities of employees can be performed anywhere, unlike the traditional way, where employees used to work in offices. The new mobile workforce is consisted with workers who work at their homes, coffee shops, and airports or on trains. As a consequence of that PC sales shipments and Desktop shipments have been dropped in last few years. At the same time portable laptops and smaller netbook shipments have climbed promptly. The mobile digital platform increases the speed of information flow; the velocity of decisions, the efficiency of...