Presentation for the QitCom 2012 conference.

1. Mobile:
Trends and Best
Practices
QITCOM 2012

3. What’s Happening Now?
The Numbers Paint the
Picture…
* Feb 2011 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379665,00.asp
** Jan 2010 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1278413

4. Mobile Overtakes PC (Worldwide)
As of Q4 2010, more mobile devices are
selling than PCs.
By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs
as the most common device for web
access.
* Feb 2011 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379665,00.asp
** Jan 2010 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1278413

5. iPhone Sales Overtakes Birth
371K babies born per day
378K iPhones sold per day
* Feb 2012 http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1506

6. Mobile Overtakes PC (Worldwide)

7. Smartphone Growth (Worldwide)
Smartphones account for
31% of all mobile sales
worldwide
47% increase in sales
worldwide 4Q 2011
Android dominant with
50.9% (iOS 23.8%)
* Gartner Q4 2011 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1924314

8. Cisco: Global Mobile Data Traffic
Global mobile data traffic grew 2.3-fold in 2011,
doubling four year in a row
2011 mobile data traffic was eight times the size
of the entire global Internet in 2000
Smartphone usage tripled in 2011
Middle East and Africa will have strongest mobile
data traffic growth of any region
* Cisco Feb http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-520862.html

9. What’s Happening Now?
How Users Are Using the
Mobile Web…

10. Photos: great app for the 2-way
conversation

11. Video: the app for 1 to many

12. Email: I’m not dead yet

13. Responsive Design

14. Mobile+Social+Cloud: the ideal
match

15. Mobile Web App vs. Native Apps

16. Social Recommendations for
Business

17. Government

18. Arts and Culture

19. Qatar National Day

20. Thank you!