Yes, I just have to make a mobile-oriented comment here.
There are 2 billion GSM subscribers. The next billion will be added in the next few years. In a year or two the industry will start selling more than a billion phones a year. Oh, and most of these mobile billions won’t have a PC.
Don’t bother trying to impress me with the number of Internet users now. I’m too busy trying to help the next billion who will come via the phone. 🙂
Link: One Billion Internet Users (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) (tip from Johnston who got it via Coates).
Summary:
The Internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users. A second billion users will follow in the next ten years, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs.
Jakob (who of course only cares about usability) links to Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends presentation, which also points out that mobile outstrips Internet – she gets it.
