Council of Science Editors 2011 Mobile Technology May 2 2011

Darrell W. GunterChief Commercial Officer

Going Mobile: A Guide to Developing Great Apps for Scholarly Publishing

May 2, 2011

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Our Agenda For Today

• Primer / some questions• Gartner’s Predictions for 2012• Global Mobile Stats• Smart Phone Stats• What Does It All Mean?• Conclusions!

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Some Key Questions?

• How many of you have a smart phone device?• How many of you in the audience have an iPad

or similar device? • How many of you have a mobile application in

place now?• How many of you will have a mobile

application for next year?

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The STM Consumer

Author of a

book

Member of a STM society

Author of journal articles

Receiving research funding

Consumer & reader Peer

reviewer

Participant & speaker at

conferences

Taking advantage of continuous education

Member of an editorial board

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The Holy Grail!

Get the author to the PDF ASAP!

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Gartner Identifies Top 10 Mobile Applications for 2012

#1 Money Transfer#2 Location-Based Services#3 Mobile Search#4 Mobile Browsing#5 Mobile Health Monitoring#6 Mobile Payment#7 Near Field Communication Services#8 Mobile Advertising#9 Mobile Instant Messaging#10 Mobile Music

Source: Gartner http://bit.ly/kLTy5s

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Key 2011 Global Mobile Stats

• 6,915,782,324 World Population • 5.3 Billion Mobile Subscriptions– 747.4 MM China– 525.2 MM India– 292.8 MM USA

• 1,388.2 Billion up 18.5% Global Shipments of mobile devices

• 302.6 MM up 74.4% Smart Phones

Source: mobiThinking http://bit.ly/m7O0Mq

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Key 2011 Global Mobile Stats

• Both Gartner and IDC both agree that the Android Operating System will represent approximately 38% of the projected approximate 450 million unit sales

• Almost 1 in 5 mobile users have access to fast mobile services (3G or better)

• US has overtaken Western Europe in unlimited data plan

Source: mobiThinking http://bit.ly/m7O0Mq

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Mobile Behavior In US, Europe & JapanMobile behavior in United States, EU5 (UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy) and Japan – October, November, December 2010Percent of total mobile audience (Age 13+)

United States Europe JapanUsed connected media (browser, app or download) 46.7% 41.1% 76.8%

Used browser 36.4% 28.8% 55.4%Used application 34.4% 28.0% 53.3%Used messaging

Sent text message 68.0% 82.7% 41.6%Instant messaging 17.2% 14.2% 3.6%Email 30.5% 22.2% 57.1%Accessed entertainment/social media

Took photos 52.4% 57.5% 62.9%Social networking or blog 24.7% 18.0% 19.3%Played games 23.2% 25.3% 16.3%Recorded video 20.2% 26.1% 15.8%Listened to music 15.7% 25.0% 12.9%Watched TV and/or video 5.6% 5.7% 22.8%Accessed financial servicesBank accounts 11.4% 8.0% 7.0%Financial news or stock quotes 10.2% 8.0% 16.5%Accessed news, sports, weather, search, retail, travel, reference

News and information 39.5% 32.2% 57.6%

Weather reports 25.2% 16.4% 34.7%Search 21.4% 14.9% 31.5%Maps 17.8% 13.0% 17.1%Sports news 15.8% 12.0% 18.2%Restaurant info 10.0% 6.5% 9.7%Traffic reports 8.4% 7.4% 14.0%Classifieds 7.3% 4.8% 3.6%Retail site 6.5% 5.2% 8.5%Travel service 4.4% 4.6% 2.9%Source: comScore MobiLens (Feb 2011)via: mobiThinking

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Mobile Apps StatsChange in price of a download app over 12 months, 2010 according to Distimo

App store Apple Blackberry Ovi (Nokia) Android

# of apps 300K 18K 130K 25K

Price change All apps -12 -24 +1 -29

Top 100 apps -19 -24 -9 -61

Source: The Distimo report (January 2011)via: mobiThinking

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Smart Phone Stats• Nielsen

report that 31% of US mobile phone owners have a smartphone as of December 2010, and expect smartphones to become the majority by the end of 2011. eMarketer predicts that smartphone ownership will reach 43% of the US mobile population by 2015.

• According to figures for 2010 released by Gartner, smartphones accounted for 297 million (19%) of the 1.6 billion mobile phones sold that year. That's 72.1% more smartphone sales than in 2009.

• The same company expects US sales of smartphones to grow from 67 million in 2010 to 95 million in 2011, and become the highest-selling consumer electronic device category.

• For Q4 2010, the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker puts smartphone sales at 100.9 million, up some 87% over Q4 2009. They report total smartphone sales for 2010 as 302.6 million, up around 74% on 2009.

• The Coda Research Consultancy predict global smartphone sales of some 2.5 billion over the 2010-2015 period, and also suggest that mobile Internet use via smartphones will increase 50 fold by the end of that period.

• Morgan Stanley Research estimates sales of smartphones will exceed those of PCs in 2012.

• Gartner expect over 500 million smartphones to sell in 2012.

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What Does It All Mean?

• To be relevant, you must have a mobile strategy

• Mobile is another driver to your PDFs!• Be agile, consider HTML 5• Choose wisely

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Conclusions

• Mobile technology is not going away

• Find a vendor and get started right away

• Don’t be ashamed to copy the best practices of others

• Assign a champion to the project

• Establish a performance dashboard to measure your success

(progress).