1 Billion Mobile Internet Users By 2010

4th December 2009

Analysts at IDC have made some predictions about the growth of the mobile Internet, based on usage data currently available. Not surprisingly, mobile Web browsing is big!

Mobile devices are predicted to “Eclipse the PC” next year. While the report does not actually predict the death of the Personal Computer, it does say that the mobile Web will grow, to the extent that it no longer remains subservient or secondary to the PC. Mobiles will become the primary source of Web browsing for many.

It is expected that the number of mobile Web users will cross the 1 billion mark in 2010, while the number of PC users will be around 1.3 billion. The growth rate of mobile devices will be 2.5 times that of the PC.

The growing numbers of smart phones, such as the iPhone, Blackberry and Google Android powered devices, along with good mobile operating systems, are responsible for this explosive growth.

200 million more smart phones are expected to hit the markets in 2010.

IDC also predicts that the iPhone, which currently has about 1,00,000 applications, will have about 3,00,000 applications by the end of the next year, while Android, which has just 10,000 applications will have 50,000 to 75,000 applications by then, further boosting the mobile Internet.

Google’s open operating system, Android, will also provide stiff competition to the iPhone.

The typically over-hyped Apple tablet, which they have called the ‘iPad’, and Microsoft’s own tablet device, which is expected to launch in the coming year as well, will further contribute to this growth.

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Tags: android, google, ipad, iphone, mobile, mobile-internet, mobile-web, operating system

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1. Isaac : 7 December 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Hi,

   Nice article. Can you share the IDC report with me? I’d like to see it in full.

   Many thanks,

   Isaac

2. AccuraCast : 8 December 2009 at 4:44 am

   @Isaac: There’s a link to the report on the very first line of this article. Also pasted here:
   http://www.idc.com/research/predictions10/predictions10.jsp

3. axbilisimseo : 21 January 2010 at 12:53 pm

   very good article. thank you

4. süpürgelik : 4 February 2010 at 3:06 pm

   I have read your entire article. Very useful information. Thanks

5. axbilisim : 5 February 2010 at 1:53 pm

   very good article. thank you for sharing

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