Mobile Internet To Soar With PC Access Peaking And Then Going Into Decline:
Here at Mobile Inquirer I have been telling our good readers that the demise of the PC is imminent.
This makes a lot of sense as the rise of tablets and smartphones brings functionality that rivals a PC in terms of speed and applications.
Karsten Weide, IDC research vice president, Media and Entertainment.
“Forget what we have taken for granted on how consumers use the Internet, soon, more users will access the Web using mobile devices than using PCs, and it’s going to make the Internet a very different place.”
Weide went on to predict that mobile internet users will grow year on year and by 2015 will have seen an increase of some 16.6%, with PC users accessing the internet beginning to stagnate and slowly decline
No data was provided to indicate just how much that decline would be and how severe it may look but if HP and IBM know something about computers and PC’s then their departure from the PC manufacturing heights may have some tell tale warnings in that back this market research up.
IDC did however go on to predict that there will be some 2.7 billion people who access the Internet by 2015, this is up from 2 billion at the end of 2010. This will mean that at the need of 2015 more than 40% of the worlds population will have access to the internet…staggering!
Anthony Munns