What Emerges When Location, Mobility, and the Internet Come Together?

SUMMARY

Abstract

This IDC Insight draws from varied sources as philosophy, art, and technology to build a conceptual framework with which businesses can understand the emergent effects of mobility, location, and the Internet.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• IDC Opinion
• In This Insight
• Situation Overview
  • The Ingredients
  • Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Mobile Subscribers, 2002-2012
  • Figure: Importance of Megapixel Camera in Next Mobile Phone Purchase
  • Figure: GPS-Enabled Converged Device Shipments and Penetration, 1Q06-1Q08
  • Figure: Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Mobile Data Average Revenue Per User - Excluding SMS and MMS, 2006-2008
• Future Outlook
  • What Will Happen
    • Complete Our Virtual Selves
    • Figure: Context and the Apricot
    • Figure: AOL User #672368
    • Figure: LucasFilm's Habitat (1986-1988)
    • Help Us Better See and Understand the Real World
    • Figure: Our Perspectives Are Our Own
    • Figure: Girl with a Mandolin
    • Figure: Photosynth Demo
    • Blur the Lines Between the Real and the Virtual Worlds
    • Figure: Metcalfe's Law
    • Figure: Reed's Law Versus Metcalfe's Law
  • Scenarios
• Essential Guidance
  • It Is About Experiences
  • Figure: ilovebees Recruits
  • Toward a Segmentation of One
  • Figure: Facebook's Controversial Beacon in Action
  • From One-to-One to Many-to-Many
  • Figure: CellBazaar.com
• Learn More
  • Related Research