The future is bright and it is mobile (in fact it is here !)
There are so many pundits out there who have finally jumped on this bandwagon. But lets be honest, five and a half (or is it now closer to six) billion people, can’t be wrong – the mobile revolution is finishing its transition from what have been predominantly voice services to broad-band data services. The devices that we used to just talk on are now full blown computers and we use them for everything – although we do actually still use them to talk on as well too!. ( See my previous blog: http://rossmac2310.blogspot.com/2011/10/human-evolution-and-mobile.html ) There are so many exciting threads to this trend : the Internet revolution in Africa and other emerging markets, the plethora of new services being created every day that add value to our everyday existence and the emergence of real competition in the mobile handset space. I applaud Microsoft ( and Nokia) for their exciting new partnership and a handset that will create a real challenge to the incumbent behe