The Mobile Web: Key Industry and Technological Trends
Shwetank Dixit
The paper will shed light on key trends for the mobile web in key countries, and then will focus of India specific figures to place India related trends in a global context. The paper will focus on two main parts: Market trends and technology trends in the mobile web space. In the former part, the paper will focus on analyzing usage patterns of the data from usage and download statistics from Opera Mini, which is one of the world’s most used mobile browsers, taken over a period of the last one year, which allow us to get an insight into key usage trends regarding mobile web space in India. It will also focus on some demographic data, to give an insight on who are using the mobile web in India and worldwide. The paper will also shed light on the key opportunities and challenges that lie ahead regarding Indian mobile web usage, both from a market perspective and a technical and developer related perspective, and will provide further ideas on how these challenges can be addressed.