Predictions from Mobile Monday Boston CEO Dinner
Posted on: July 22, 2010 – Filed under: Global
The networking organization Mobile Monday Boston assembled a group of CEOs in the private dining room at Barbara Lynch’s recently-opened Menton, in the neighborhood previously known as Fort Point Channel.
I moderated a very informal conversation among the attendees, who were mainly there to network, swill wine, and dine on tasty salmon or beef. Two things we talked about: favorite mobile apps (just about everyone named apps that run on the iPhone or iPad), and predictions about the future of the mobile ecosystem.
glass.jpgPredictions first: some participants felt that as more smartphones can access the Internet at high speeds, the importance of apps will decline, since apps have evolved, by and large, to deal with the shortcomings of Web browsers and bandwidth limitations on most handsets. Folks seemed bullish about HTML5 as a format for delivering video to phones, as opposed to Flash (which most smartphones don’t support.) Jeff Glass of Bain Capital Ventures (that’s him at the center of the pic) predicted that Microsoft will make some mobile acquisitions to help make it more competitive in the space, and several people said they felt that iPhone, Android, and Microsoft will be the three surviving players with significant share in mobile operating systems. Via: Boston.com