Matt Hamblen

It's the time of year for mobile industry predictions, like it or not. Sometimes the predictions from prognosticators sound incredibly obvious, but other times they provoke thought and insight. Bill Dudley's list of 2012 Mobile Predictions seemed as good a place as any to hash out some of these ideas. I picked out several of his predictions to pass along and comment upon, but not all of them. Dudley is group director of product management at Sybase 365, so he has a vested interest in seeing smartphones, tablets and mobile apps grow, but he also speaks from spending 25

Global research and advisory firm mediaIDEAS forecasted in a recent study that the U.S. market in 2010 for paid e-reader content will be approximately $460.6 million—consisting primarily of e-books sold to a user base of more than 8 million.