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Based in Warkworth, just north of Auckland NZ, Kudos Web has been serving clients at home and abroad for many years. Our team has many years of experience and offers a diverse range of specialist skills from content management systems, e-commerce systems and social media technologies to identity, advertising and general print design. Kudos are also proud members of the Warkworth chapter of Business Network International (BNI) and recommends other great businesses in the chapter. (See a list of BNI Warkworth members here).

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Mobilise your website

May 2011

In recent years we have witnessed a phenomenal growth in the world of Mobile. Many predict the impact of smartphones, tablets and wireless broadband will be as big in the next decade as the internet was in the last decade. Those wild-eyed predictions from the days of the dotcom - often discarded as whimsical pipedreams - were not only accurate, but in most cases a significant underestimation of the level of eCommerce and internet usage we see today.

Mobile is positioned to be as big - if not bigger - than dotcom

Consider the following:

There are currently 1.08 billion smartphones in use worldwide[1]
Total smartphone shipments in 2010 alone were 302.6 million units, up 74.4 percent from 2009[2]
Conservative estimates suggest 450 million smartphones will be sold in 2011, a 50 percent increase approx from 2010[3]
Worldwide, consumer electronics makers shipped 100.9 million smart phones in the last quarter of 2010. This is up 87 per cent on the same period in 2009[4]
PC shipments rose just three per cent to 92.1 million[5] during the same period
Average smartphone usage doubled in 2010[6]
By 2015 it is predicted there will be over 7.1 billion mobile-connected devices - approximately equal to the world's population in 2015[7]
By 2015 it is predicted here will be 788 million mobile-only Internet users[8]

[1] Microsoft Corporation; [2-5] IDC Corporation; [6-8] Cisco Systems

What does all this mean for Kudos Web's clients?

It means we are embarking upon an online ‘revolution’ that is about to change everything. For the first time in history, smartphones are now outselling personal computers. At its current rate of growth, world Mobile internet usage is set to overtake desktop internet in just 3 years. Moreover, we’re witnessing an enormous growth in “mobile-only” users - those around the world who no longer use PCs to surf the net. So companies that ignore Mobile will most certainly find themselves disadvantaged.

How should we prepare?

The simple answer: begin planning for a Mobile edition of your existing website. Millions of Mobile users already avoid sites that do not offer a Mobile option. On a mobile phone, there is obviously limited screen space. Even with the ability to turn the device lengthwise, the standard website appears extremely small, difficult to read and hard to navigate; thus creating a negative experience for mobile device users that they will not want to repeat.

We can help

Having already developed your existing website, we have everything we need to quickly and efficiently develop a Mobile edition. If you’d like us to provide a quote for the work, please let us know.

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