An open question - is Mary Meeker still taken as seriously as she was 15 years ago? I don't talk to enough people in the investor community to know either way.
This slide deck is a notable annual event.
Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends
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Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends
#22From Slide 9: mobile usage as a % of web usage is now 25%. It was 14% last year. This seems contrary to what we hear about native apps dominating smartphone usage. Obviously that web usage isn't "HTML5 Apps" per se and I'm sure apps dominate services like Facebook, Yelp, etc ... but that number and growth seems very significant.
I think everybody's stats are getting thrown out by the tendency of iOS browsers (at least) to refresh page just about every time app or tab focus changes.
Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends
#23An open question - is Mary Meeker still taken as seriously as she was 15 years ago? I don't talk to enough people in the investor community to know either way.
Mary and others like Steve Milunovich at Morgan Stanley were in a rather unique place and time 15 years ago because the Internet was just becoming this very-important-thing and very few people really understood it. Today's a lot different. That said, this presentation is widely viewed as pretty important annual snapshot of certain trends. Note though that Mary is at KPCB [Edit: Corrected] these days so her focus is presumably a bit different than when she was employed in financial services.
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#24I figured this might appear on hacker news soon enough. If anyone has any questions about the tech behind this microsite (although it is pretty straightforward) let me know. We developed the site and the hosting to account for an enormous amount of traffic in a very short period of time. So far everything is working fine.
Very poor usability on chrome osx. Clicking next takes 2-3 seconds before the next slide shows...
The slideshare embed is having some issues. We added a link to download the PDF directly until slideshare works that out.
Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends
#25The ‘Made in USA’ slide (10) is nonsense. It shows a shift from non-USA OSes, Symbian and Linux to 'Made in USA' OSes, Android, iOS and Windows phone. But Android is built on Linux!
"USA controlled" may be a better way of putting it.
Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends
#26From Slide 9: mobile usage as a % of web usage is now 25%. It was 14% last year. This seems contrary to what we hear about native apps dominating smartphone usage. Obviously that web usage isn't "HTML5 Apps" per se and I'm sure apps dominate services like Facebook, Yelp, etc ... but that number and growth seems very significant.
I think everybody's stats are getting thrown out by the tendency of iOS browsers (at least) to refresh page just about every time app or tab focus changes.
I suspect that's unlikely - most analytics are focused on time-based sessions, where refreshes don't matter.
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#27From Slide 9: mobile usage as a % of web usage is now 25%. It was 14% last year. This seems contrary to what we hear about native apps dominating smartphone usage. Obviously that web usage isn't "HTML5 Apps" per se and I'm sure apps dominate services like Facebook, Yelp, etc ... but that number and growth seems very significant.
Embedded browsers within native apps likely add serious growth for web usage. E.g. Facebook native app is hugely popular, and sends a lot of traffic to a lot of websites within the app's browser.
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#28An open question - is Mary Meeker still taken as seriously as she was 15 years ago? I don't talk to enough people in the investor community to know either way.
Mary and others like Steve Milunovich at Morgan Stanley were in a rather unique place and time 15 years ago because the Internet was just becoming this very-important-thing and very few people really understood it. Today's a lot different. That said, this presentation is widely viewed as pretty important annual snapshot of certain trends. Note though that Mary is at KPCB [Edit: Corrected] these days so her focus is p…
I think you mean KPCB, or else she still would be in financial services of a sort.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm interested to hear the feedback. We did the design for the site and tested it extensively on mobile. What issue are you seeing? My email is in my profile if you want to drop me a line. edit: The slideshare embed is having some issues on mobile and desktop unfortunately. Very slow. They are working on it.
It was unviewable due to the slowness. Just linking to the PDF on a static webserver somewhere would have been far superior.
We added a link to the pdf beneath the slidedeck. We should have considered doing that in the first place - hindsight is 20/20.
It's listed above but here it is again: http://www.kpcb.com/file/kpcb-internet-trends-2014
Re: Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mary and others like Steve Milunovich at Morgan Stanley were in a rather unique place and time 15 years ago because the Internet was just becoming this very-important-thing and very few people really understood it. Today's a lot different. That said, this presentation is widely viewed as pretty important annual snapshot of certain trends. Note though that Mary is at KPCB [Edit: Corrected] these days so her focus is p…
I think you mean KPCB, or else she still would be in financial services of a sort.
Duh. You're right of course. Corrected.