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@ CM Summit: Meeker: Smartphone Shipments Will Surpass PCs Within Two Years
mocoNews Jun 07 10
Morgan Stanley internet analyst Mary Meeker raced through a stream of stats, mostly about mobile, during her presentation at the Conversational Marketing Summit. One of the most surprising was that the US has surpassed Japan as the country with the most 3G users. That has led to a shift in mobile innovation from Asia and Europe to the US, that Meeker says is going to last. What is perhaps not so surprising, considering all the excitement about Steve Jobs’ iPhone 4 preview today, Meeker says that global smartphone shipments will reach nearly 500 million units by 2012, exceeding PC shipments by that point. Full story...
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