Mobile is not a thing; it's everything.
summary
Claims rapid mobile growth with concrete figures: 1.25 billion devices ship this year, tablets overtake PC shipments, and Target expects >50% mobile traffic on Cyber Monday. Shows real deployments: M-Pesa drives financial inclusion in Africa with ~70–80% mobile transactions, Kinza ships sub-$1 thermometers that feed centralized health data, Dash’s OBD dongle and Nest Protect report car and home status to phones, and Uber repurposes fulfillment. Notes platforms making money: WeChat as payment and Line selling $132M of virtual stickers.
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- 0:00Intro
- 1:00MOBILE IS NOT A THING IT IS EVERYTHING
- 10:55BUT WHAT IS MORE INTERESTING IS WHAT MOBILE TECHNOLOGY IS DOING UNDERNEATH IT ALL AND HOW IT IS RESHAPING EVERYTHING
- 19:11BRIDGING THE PHYSICAL WORLD WITH THE DIGITAL WORLD IS ONE OF MOBILE'S BIGGEST OPPORTUNITIES
- 20:3950% OF GLOBAL VEHICLE SALES WILL BE CONNECTED VEHICLES BY 2015
- 22:40UBER IS RADICALLY CHANGING THE MINDSET OF CONSUMERS TO ON-DEMAND. REALTIME FULFILLMENT.
- 27:11DIGESTIBLE AND IMPLANTABLE MONITORING DEVICES ARE ACTUALLY BEING DEVELOPED TODAY
- 30:19A CONTENT DISTRIBUTOR
- 31:20$10 BILLION USD VALUATION
- 31:58MESSAGING AS AN APP PLATFORM
- 32:38OTT MESSAGING IS CREATING ITS OWN MONETIZATION PLATFORM INSIDE MOBILE ITSELF
- 33:01WE ARE LIVING IN THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND DISRUPTIVE TIME EVER. MOBILE IS CHANGING EVERYTHING.
