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Android Adoption Ramping Up 6X Faster Than iPhone

Dwayne Harapnuik — November 6, 2012 — Leave a comment

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/05/mary-meeker-internet-trends/?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=10%20Things%20In%20Tech%20You%20Need%20To%20Know&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20%28sai%29%3A%2010%20Things%20You%20Need%20To%20Know%20This%20Morning

Mary Meeker Gives Mid-Year Internet Trends Report: Android Adoption Ramping Up 6X Faster Than iPhone | TechCrunch via kwout

Mary Meeker of KPCB who is best known for her Internet Trends Report provided a mid year update to a select group of industry leaders and confirmed that mobile adoption is growing even more rapidly than she or anyone else has predicted. Meeker points to the following increased growth:

… iPad adoption is now ramping up five times faster than iPhone adoption, up from 3X in her May report…Android adoption is increasing six times faster than iPhone adoption, up from 4X.

Perhaps the most significant number and Meeker points to is:

…by the end of Q2 2013, Meeker believes the global smartphone plus tablet install base will surpass the install base of the PC.

In less than 5 years smartphones and tablets have surpassed the installed base of PCs. The notion of accessing the world’s information all the time and from everywhere is no longer a futuristic prediction. We are living this. We have been living this for several years and industries like Education are being disrupted in the same way that music, newspapers and video/dvd distribution have been disrupted.

Is Higher Education doing enough to respond to this disruption? Are faculty and administrator and schools at all levels preparing our students for a world that is changing so rapidly?

In Innovation android, disruption, iPad, iPhone, smartphone

Dare to disagree: Good conflict equates progress

Dwayne Harapnuik — August 20, 2012 — 4 Comments

Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren’t echo chambers — and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.

Unfortunately, most organizations will go out their way to avoid conflict and essentially stop thinking and stop progress. Why? Heffernan points out that it takes a significant amount of courage, effort and work:

to seek out people with different backgrounds, different disciplines, different ways of thinking and different experience, and find ways to engage with them.

It is not that organization don’t want to embrace and engage with these divergent and disruptive thinkers it is that they can’t. And as Heffernan points out, organizations limit their thinking and progress:

because the people inside of them are too afraid of conflict.

Fortunately, Heffernan doesn’t leave us hanging without a solution to this problem. The challenge is that the solution is an age old human shortcoming of not facing the hard truth or reality that circumstance demand. Perhaps Heffernan’s closing challenge needs repeating:

But truth won’t set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

In Leadership conflict, disagree, disruption, progress, truth

A Disrupted Higher-Ed System

Dwayne Harapnuik — January 27, 2012 — Leave a comment

A Disrupted Higher-Ed System via kwout

Jeff Selingo makes that argument that control of the parchment (accreditation) and governmental funding of student aid as the only reasons our current Higher Education system is able to sustain it centuries old traditions of having:

professors at the front of a room or at a table with an average of 16 students in front of them.

Selengo points to several examples of disruption outside of academia StraighterLine, the Khan Academy, and Badges to certify skills as well examples inside academic like MITx and Udacity.

Is the perfect storm of change brewing for higher-ed? Time will tell but when you consider the following, something has to give: ubiquitous access to information through the internet, looming global financial crisis, evidence that the system isn’t producing the result we all expect, non-traditional organizations moving in rapidly and successfully at the bottom end of the market and perhaps most importantly a weakening in the reliance on and significance of the parchment.

In Change disruption, Disruptive innovation

1.7 Million iPhone 4 Sold in 3 Days

Dwayne Harapnuik — June 29, 2010 — Leave a comment

http://gizmodo.com/5574299/apple-sold-17-million-iphone-4s-in-three-days

Apple Sold 1.7 Million iPhone 4s In Three Days via kwout

This is quite the number to sell considering the pre-order problems AT&T had and the fact that Apple is still using AT& T exclusively. Furthermore, the iPhone 4 was just released in 5 countries and won’t be released to an additional 18 nations until the end of July.
Read the full Gizmodo article…

Just less than two years ago back in Canada I recall arguing with many people about the impact of the iPhone and my categorization of it as a disruptive technology. This really is a “I told you so moment”. The following is an excerpt from a post I made in a Lethbridge College Educational Technology blog back on November 24, 2008.

The Blackberry Storm is supposed to be RIM’s answer to the iPhone but after watching and reading several reviews of the device I think RIM has not only missed the mark but they are a classic example of how a market leader’s success prevents them from seeing the next “big” opportunity. Christensen the author of the Innovator’s Dilemma points out that serving their best clients and focusing on what has brought them success in the past is the same thing that will prevent a market leader from taking advantage of the latest disruptive innovation.

The Blackberry Storm has a large touch screen and has all the best of RIM’s latest features so it is a the ultimate business enterprise device for keeping up with email and calendaring on the road but it lacks WIFI. In addition, Jason Hiner points out in his TechRepublic video review of the Storm it doesn’t come close to matching the iPhone’s usability and web browsing capability.

There is no denying the Storm or any other Blackberry for that matter are much superior devices than the iPhone for a business user whose priorities are email and calendering but no Wifi, poor usability and poor web browsing are huge issues to a Net Gen user or anyone else uses the web to its fullest potential (Web 2.0 & the Cloud). If you aren’t paying attention to were the Net Gen user is going and what they really want then you are missing “the next big thing”. It will be interesting to see if RIM will join the ranks of so many other companies who’s success prevents them from seeing where the market is going.

This is a “told you so moment” if there ever was one.

This is a classic example of disruptive innovation–we are still just in the early stages of this disruption and only time will tell just how significant this latest release will be. To be fair to RIM, Nokia is the market leader whose overall market share is being eroded by the iPhone, Blackberry and Android.

In iPhone disruption, disruptive technology, mobile