When will the mobile internet overtake normal internet? Next week? Never? Nope, it’s neither according to Yahoo!’s Geraldine Wilson who has predicted that 2017 is the year mobile internet use will surpass internet use via a computer or laptop.
Speaking to Total Telecom, Wilson, who is Vice President of connected life at Yahoo! Europe, commented:
Within 10 years more people will be accessing the Internet from their mobile than in the home from a PC.
The argument is that in developing markets where PC use is very low, many people’s first experience of the internet will be via a mobile phone thus encouraging them to stick with that point of access as their familiarity with the web develops. Ten years seems like a fairly safe bet to us, but will mobiles be distinguishable from today’s laptops in terms of features by then? The semantics of what constitutes a *gestures inverted quotation marks* computer may end up getting a little blurry by the time 2017 rolls around.
(Via MocoNews)
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