Mobile From East to West

This week we are in Jeju Island, South Korea for the LIFT Asia conference. We were invited yesterday by the Internet portal Daum (Korea’s #2 Internet portal) to give a workshop on the “Current State and Future of Mobile“. We decided to cover US (esp. iPhone), Japan and China.

Interestingly, the presentation already got about 5 times more views on Slideshare than the number of participants to this workshop in a single day. Not a surprise, but worth mentioning.

The key ideas:

• iPhone is NOT dominating and NOT such as great business, aside for Apple. Not a surprise for industry experts but If you thought iPhone was the world’s overlord phone, be prepared for a shock. Check out Strand Consult’s free report “The Moment of Truth: A Portrait of the iPhone” for further enlightenment.
• Japan’s market is isolated but helps predict which services will be popular when data becomes cheap and unlimited.
• China is turning phones into total commodities AND innovating. Check out Tencent + we brought the infamous Shave Mobile phone for its wake-up power.

Without further ado, the presentation: