Austin Startup-WeekI Can Haz Mobile and Gaming

Why Mobile?September 9, 2011

C. Enrique Ortiz, Bijoy Goswami, Frank Roan & John Knox

App/Data Space is Exploding

• Data revenues have grown at an average rate of 20% to 30% across operators like AT&T, Telefónica, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone between 2010 and 2011. (*Source: ABI Research)

– Growth translates to mobile/app opportunties

– Growth also translates to pains for network operators, and opportunites the help with such pains ($)

Mobile Platforms are Exploding

*Source: Enders Analysis

App Markets are Exploding

• Android Market: ~300K

• iOS (Apple) Store: >500K

*Source: Silicon Alley Insider

Don’t forget the mass market!

• While the number of smartphones as a proportion of mobile phones is set to increase, from 23% of all mobile phone shipments in 2011 to 37% in 2016,

• Ovum still expects non-smartphones to number 2.3 billion in 2016

• JavaME is the most widespread mobile application runtime on mobile phones (as reflected by its position on Figure 1). – According to Oracle, the company which now maintains

the Java technology, there are currently 3 billion mobile phones that currently support JavaME, and 1 billion of these are from Nokia alone.

Austin Mobile Scene• A fast growing

scene; largest mobile scene since 2000s (actually beats it)

• SW & HW

• Gaming, Services, Enterprise, Health, Fitness, Platforms, other…

http://www.mindmeister.com/72914921/the-austin-mobile-scene

The Austin Mobile Scene MindMap: add yourself or contact @eortiz or @sguengerich

Austin Mobile SceneMind Map

In Summary• Truly explosive growth in mobile, worldwide

– Comsumption and opportunities

• Great Austin mobile scene– Fast growing, rich & diverse, great talent

• Now is the time to get into mobile!– Join a mobile technology group for example: Mobile

Monday Austin, Android Dev Austin, other

• Questions?– Contact C. Enrique Ortiz

http://about.me/cenriqueortiz

– @eortiz, @bijoy, @windaddict, Frank Roan