The Future of Mobile Internet: Views from the Panel at Mobile 2.0 Conference
At the Mobile 2.0 conference in San Franciso which is taking place this week, a panel of experts were asked questions on the future of mobile Internet and how they saw the mobile landscape in 5 years time. The answers included the following observations:
- Consumers view and experience of the Internet will be the same on mobile devices as on desktop computers. Problems with getting things to fit and operate in a mobile environment will be alleviated.
- There will be an end to fragmentation. Websites and applications developed for mobile Internet will be available to everyone at the same time in the way that sites for the desktop environment are currently.
- Mobility will be an integral part of the business environment. Businesses will go completely wireless and mobile applications will be an integral part of managing those businesses.
- Payments for good and services over the Internet will be easier. The process will be safer and the friction will be less during the payment making it a better, more seamless experience.
- Mobile broadband providers will build better networks and do nothing else.
Other discussions centred around open source technology versus closed technology with one of the panel members seeing the closed environment as a barrier to getting applications quickly to the market and keeping apps in the domain of the large development companies.
Finally, the panel were asked about the barriers to the visions. Closed systems were cited as something that stifles innovation and hampers new developments in the mobile Internet space. One of the panelists pointed to the thinking that web sites have to be written for mobile whereas the thinking should be that the data is the same and should be created once. The way you want to access the data is different but the data itself remains the same.
Full coverage of the question and answer session can be found on the GoMo News blog.
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