Opening presentation at the RI Nexus Future of the Mobile Web panel on November 5, 2009. http://bit.ly/4033rJ

1. Mobile Internet
From there to here
Brian Jepson
Senior Editor
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

2. Then:
My First Featurephone
• Sony Ericsson T68i
• Bluetooth, IrDA,
GPRS data, WAP,
SyncML, email
• Apple used it to demo
iSync over Bluetooth
at Macworld Expo NY
2002
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3. Now:
A Pocket Computer
• High-resolution
camera
• Hard or soft keyboard
• 3D (OpenGL ES)
games
• Augmented Reality
• Full web browser
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4. What’s Changed Between
2002 and Now?
• Insanely Great user
experience
• Smarter devices
• Large 3G footprints
• Always-on
connectivity
• Apps
Photo Courtesy of Apple
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5. What the book market says
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6. Challenges
• Walled gardens still exist
• Carrier lock-in
• Spotty 3G deployment
• Half-assed App Store clones
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7. Opportunities
• Gradual opening/transparency of the
iPhone platform
• Open platforms like Android
• Handset choice, more unlocked
phones
• Well-executed app stores/markets
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8. Everything but iPhone
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9. Mobile Dev Detail
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10. iPhone Dominates
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11. WTF? Or I Wish I
Thought of That?
• Mobile web includes
some unexpected
devices
• What will lifetime all-
you-can-eat Internet
on dedicated devices
mean?
Photo Courtesy of Peek
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12. from xkcd, http://xkcd.com/548/
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