According to a report, Canadians are certainly getting hungry for mobile data and the industry is supposed to boom 30% (increase over $3B) in the next three years. With any luck this will get Canada on track with the rest of the West:
Based on IDC Canada’s research, the market is experiencing triple-digit year-over-year growth and still has room to grow. But Mr. Surtees advocates for data plans to become easier for the consumer to digest and follow business models already implemented within the United States or parts of Europe.
If this actually happens, we’ll be further on the road to ubiquitous computing and mlearning might actually have a hope of happening in Canada.
This idea came up in a team meeting yesterday as one of my staff just came back from Japan and China, noticing that even the poor have “great phones” and put together with the observations of another staffer who came back from Africa over the summer – the world takes it’s technology mobile, and that is where it matters.
Looking at this trend, I really think the phone will have to be the gateway to interact with or retrieve data, laptops are for general creation (large scale) synthesis and analysis, powerful desktops are going to increasingly be special use machines.
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