The Next Mobile Revolution by Rob Glaser

The Next Mobile Revolution Rob Glaser Founder & Chairman, RealNetworks

Fundamental shift in Connected Computing Devices By 2013 There will be more SmartPhones/SuperPhones (1.82 Billion) than PCs (1.78 Billion) (Source: Gartner)

SmartPhones versus SuperPhones SmartPhone SuperPhone Apps 100s 10,000s or 100,000s Apps per user 2-5 30-50+ User Interaction Method Buttons Touch Display 160 x 120 480 x 320+, w/ HW Acceleration Bandwidth 2G & 3G 3G, 4G, WiFi Web Experience Subset Full Location Awareness Optional Inherent Who Drives Experience Carrier + Handset OEM Carrier + Platform OEM + User

Social Drives Media Explosion
FaceBook
20bn photos online, 2bn added per month
1bn links to video added per week
1.2m photos viewed per second
217m videos per month
Flickr
4bn shared photos
0.5bn new per month
MySpace
90GB of music, pictures, video per second
YouTube
1bn Videos viewed per day
PhotoBucket
6.2bn photos shared
Individuals like sharing their media online Share photos on social networks Share Photos on other sites Share Video Facebook has an estimated 25 billion pictures, or about ~80 pictures per member Existing frequency of media sharing online Percent of people

Growth in Rich Media Consumption Slide

Market Approaching A Tipping Point
Behavior and Technology are Converging to drive a Digital Media Revolution
Fast/always-on connectivity everywhere and on a plethora of devices
Hardware that enables the high quality capture and playback of media across all devices (processing, memory and resolution)
Consumers are psychologically ready for digital virtual libraries (no physical goods or delayed physical goods)
Market Today

Tremendous Proliferation of Opportunities
“ Digital Persistence”
Universal Access across Devices
Making Discovery Easy
Empowering Social Expression and Engagement
Leveraging The Global Nature of These Trends

Challenges
Delivering solutions that scale with variable bandwidth and device capabilities
Creating commercial models across an extremely complex value chain
Vertical versus horizontal industry structure
Media industry adaption of new business models
Educating users on privacy and social implications

Summary
The Next Mobile Revolution is both a huge opportunity and a massively disruptive force
It will ultimately be bigger than the PC or Web 1.0 or 2.0 revolutions
Cross-industry collaboration, while complex, is essential
“ We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately”

Thank You!

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The Next Mobile Revolution by Rob Glaser

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