Back in 2005, I had the opportunity to visit rural China. Standing on the Western edge of the Great Wall, I could peer into the wind-swept pass leading to Mongolia.
I could also call home on a mobile phone that far exceeded the features of the handset I used in the United States. The cell phone service in China was better, by far, than the service I got in Washington.
Far from seeming rural and backwards, rural China was a reminder that technology moves fast and there is no reason to assume the United States will always be in the lead. I left China convinced American tech dominance was fleeting.
But here we are five years later and the two companies that look set to dominate the mobile phone revolution are Apple and Google. Together they now have a 42% share of the market for mobile phone operating systems.
And that is likely to grow with Android leaping from 3% a year ago to 25% at the end of 3Q 2010.
This is good news for anyone worried about the future of our economy. And by that I mean everyone in the United States. Mobile phones are the future of technology. With bigger screens and faster processors, smartphones are a good bet to replace laptops as the digital workhorse of the economy. When everyone is wired up with a smartphone, productivity increases. Smartphones will create new markets for virtual goods and services. And those smartphones will be powered by 4g networks that are faster than the wired network connecting your desktop to your cable modem.
The mobile computing revolution is gathering strength and its effects will be felt from Montana to Mongolia.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/nbr/blog/2011/01/remembering_mongolia.html
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