MARK THIS DAY: October 3, 2007. That's when Russ Beattie thinks the number of people browsing the internet on phones will exceed the number of people browsing with computers. Trendlines show a billion internet users with PCs and two billion mobile phone users. Ipsos says that 28% of those mobile phone owners (560 million people) use the mobile internet now. Future growth of PC users is flat. Future growth of mobile phone users is on an upward trend--mobile subscribers should exceed three billion people within two years. Beattie says, "Even if you took the worst case scenario - PC growth booms, mobile growth softens etc., before the end of the decade, we'll at least have parity." He believes, "it's really not a matter of if the mobile phone will become the dominant internet platform any more, but when.... I bet if you wanted to sit down with the numbers you could probably pick out the exact day. I'm thinking it'll probably be around October 3rd, 2007 (at 8:34 a.m)." I've made a calendar entry about this event in my mobile phone.
Russell Beattie -- "Juggernaut" was written shortly before Russ shut down his blog.
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