Mobile Data Points

Many thanks to mobile guru Tomi Ahonen, who was kind enough to forward me some extracts from his Almanac 2010. The Almanac collects together data about the mobile industry worldwide.

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Mobile + Cloud — Gartner’s Crystal Ball

Late December and early January see the seasonal appear­ance of a popular type of blog post: ‘My Predictions for [Next Year]’. They’re a great stock-​​​​in-​​​​trade because you can say whatever you like and nobody can prove you wrong until the end of the fol­lowing year, by which time everyone’s for­gotten. I’ve written a couple in the

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Web app resistance

There are, of course, already a lot of dif­ferent applic­a­tions you can run online, from to-​​​​do lists to spread­sheets to photo-​​​​editing. Soothsayers and other pundits are pre­dicting that as a con­sequence, the Great Beast of Redmond will soon be no more, as people abandon Excel and Word for online altern­at­ives. The next step,

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