YouTube's Peak into the Future

George Jetson saw this coming.

Many, including this blogger have been predicting the diminishing dominance of the PC for the past couple of years. Tablets and smartphones are increasing while desktop computer sales are dropping each quarter. Even laptops have gotten smaller with the increasing popularity of ultra books. While Microsoft fell behind in the smartphone market and probably will never catch up to a point where Microsoft will get double digit market share I believe with the Surface tablets Microsoft is on to something in the laptop/tablet arena.

Anyway the reason for this short article is the recent news from YouTube that 41% of their traffic is now from mobile devices. This is an important indicator to something many of us already were seeing in the market. The 41% includes smartphones and tablets.

There will be a time probably near the end of this decade when consumers are relying by majority on mobile devices while desktop computers will hang in dominance a bit longer in the enterprise environment. However eventually even in enterprise smaller mobile computing devices will rise to dominance when professionals will travel to and from the office with their device.

Talk about taking work home with you....