McGuire’s Law

Research is good. Free highlights from expensive research reports are great. Here are some recent headlines:

• Mobile video to top 534 million subscribers by 2014 (Pyramid Research)
• Mobile Ad Spending to Grow to $5.7 Billion (Juniper Research)
• Sales of Low-Cost Mobile Phones to Reach 700m by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• 130 million mobile LBS users in Europe by 2014 (Berg Insight)
• Scannable coupons will invigorate promotions according to study
• Smartphones, data plans, and new apps to drive ad revenue to $1.5B in 2013 (Parks Associates)
• Mobile Money Market Worth $5 billion in 2012 (Reuters)
• Close to 10 million shipped Femtocell units expected by 2013 (iDate)
• Ad-funded MMS Revenues to Hit $87M by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Mobile Email and Mobile Instant Messaging Will Drive Mobile Messaging Growth (Strategy Analytics)
• Survey Finds Majority Simply Not Interested in Buying an iPhone (NPD Group)
• Worldwide Mobile Services Revenue to Grow at Least 1.2% Annually Through 2014 (ABI Research)
• Global Handset Navigation Subscriber Base to Grow to 26 Million by 2010 (ABI Research)
• 223 Million Smartphones to be Shipped with Open Source Operating Systems by 2014 (Juniper Research)
• Global sales of smartphones to reach 310 million units in 2013 (Parks Associates)
• 366,000 Picocells to be Deployed by 2013 (ABI Research)

Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)

• Don’t copy the internet, lets make it better on mobile
• Evolution of mobile phone continues: from 8 C’s now 10 C’s
• The Novatel MiFi - possibilities for new mobile broadband business models
• IBM Throws $100 Million at Mobile
• Half of iPhone users rely more on mobile web than newspapers
• iPhone, iPod touch users hit the Net from their handsets more than a computer
• Slowly but Surely, 3G Platforms and IP Communications Are Phasing out Wirelines
• Mobile Phones the Single Most Powerful Way to Boost Rural Internet Services
• Mobility will be the Fixed Broadband Killer App
• The Top Five: What Wireless Customers Want
• Consumers value mobile phones over spouses, booze

An early proof point of the Law of Mobility turns 30 years old today. Happy Birthday Walkman!

From varnelis.net:

On July 1, the Sony Walkman will be 30 years old. It’s hard to imagine what urban life was before the Walkman. Sony first introduced portable transistor radios in 1957 and these proliferated rapidly. With an earphone (like this), it was possible to carry music around on the go, but both sources and quality were limited. Portable cassette players and boomboxes flourished in the 1970s and if the latter served as means of building impromptu communities, they were also consciously thought of as sonic assault devices, marking out territory and creating tension in urban spaces. The Walkman was a counter against this, turning music inward toward a solitary experience (although not entirely: as Scott points out, Walkmen often had two jacks, making them less solitary than iPods). If the boombox represents the last moment of urban decay and street violence, the Walkman represents its re-colonization.