Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Ross Dawson summarizes Morgan-Stanley analyst Mary Meeker's latest report on education and connectivity, and as George Siemens notes, when Mary Meeker speaks, people generally stop to listen. For good reason: she has about the sharpest and most bottom-line focused analysis out there. In this report, she emphasizes the growth of mobile platforms and suggests that it will not simply be big, it will be huge. Moreover, most of the growth of mobile platforms - especially things like smartphones, though you should also include iPads - will me greatest in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations, plus Indonesia. Mobile is tricky because there are several competing operating systems - iOS (Apple), Symbian (Nokia), Android (Google), Blackberry (RIM), and others (including WebOS, which runs on my Palm). And while desktop views will drop a bit, they won't go away, which means mobile is added to the mix, and not replacing the mix.

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