Shaun Collins gaat in op de digitale transformatie van ondernemingen in de 21e eeuw. Hij stelt aan de orde hoe de juiste toepassing van mobiele en cloud oplossingen ervoor kunnen zorgen dat een onderneming op voorsprong komt. Shaun gaat in op de impact die deze verandering heeft op alle stakeholders in de business; van medewerkers tot klanten. Hij kijkt naar hoe de toepassing en toename van 4G technologie, gecombineerd met de kracht van de adoptie van smartphone en tablet, zal zorgen voor een versnelling in de verandering van alle branches.
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In this process of filling in the gaps, the unique value of the mobile phone got to some extent lost for two reasons:
One, more people own multiple, as in more than 2, devices on the spectrum, and in their portfolio, more than one device in their portfolio can well do what people want.
And two, what people want to do on the devices has also evolved in the process.
To start with communication: clearly, the mobile phone has a very strong proposition when it comes to making calls. But communication nowadays is beyond calls. Tablets and laptops are heavily used for skype. Snappy communication over social networks happens on all devices.
Next, the consumption of media. Now this is clearly across the entire spectrum. Smaller devices are more personal than TVs, but then in the middle there are the tablets, which can be shared on personal.
Media content creation (photos and videos) is still confined more to the smaller devices. Although you will all remember last year, during the Olympics, how the Olympic stadium looked like with people holding their tablets and taking photos on them. Weird at the beginning. Totally normal right now.
Productivity also has a preferred home in the larger devices for now, although a small tablet could be completely capable of showing a powerpoint presentation.
And then of course portability relates more to smaller devices. But tablets are portable too.
So I am not trying to say is: there is still a large difference between a 4-inch smartphone and a laptop, but a difference between a 4-inch smartphone and a 7-inch tablet, or a 6.5-inch phablet is less clear in functionality.
So th unique value of each category is somewhat depreciated.
Then 2-3 years ago, a 10-inch tablet filled in the gap between the mobile phone and the laptop. In the beginning it wasn’t even clear whether there was a proper gap to be filled, but the growth came so quickly, then it became clear- the tablet is a device of its own right. And a very quickly growing number of people started having 3, not two devices with a black screen.
And then in the last 12-15 months, the gap between the smartphone and the 10-inch tablet got bridged with a astonishing speed by two new kids: the small tablet (7-8 inch) and the phablet (5.5-6.9 inch). I am not saying that 7-inch tablets and 6-inch phablets didn’t exist before the fall of 2012, but it’s in late 2012 and during 2013 that these devices really proved their place. I think you will all recall the scepticism around the too big phone, and around the too little tablet- and this was literally 18 months ago.
So as a result, in the last 12 months, significant volumes of black screen devices started selling across the entire continuum of screen sizes- startting from 2.5” ultra-entry level smartphones, through the mid range smartphones, high end big screen smartphones, to phablet, then to small tbalets, then to large tablets, then off to small laptops and convirtables and up to the proper 15-inch laptops. And the continuum goes on to “proper” screens like TVs.
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