MOBILE VISION

Jamshid Hashimi

Co-Founder at CodeZone

MOBILE VISION

• Vision

• - the faculty or state of being able to see.

• - imagine

MOBILE IS CREATING BIG CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES!

MOBILE IS ENABLING NEW FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT, COMMUNICATION, MEDIA

AND COMMERCE!

• WhatsApp is the most globally popular messaging

app with 600 million users!

• WhatsApp had over 500 million monthly active

users,

• 700 million photos and 100 million videos are shared

each day,

• The messaging system handles more than 10 billion

messages each day.

• WhatsApp added about 25 million new users every

month or 833,000 active users per day.

MOBILE VISION

• 75% of the engagement on a Facebook post happens in the first 5 hours.

• 44% of users on Twitter have never sent a tweet!

• 84% of women and 50% of men stay active on Pinterest.

• More than 2 users sign-up for LinkedIn every second.

• Weekends are the most popular time to share Vines.

• Number of snaps sent per day on SnapChat is 400 Million. (Yeah! that’s true)

• 40% of YouTube traffic comes from mobile.

WHAT ABOUT PLATFORM WAR?

FUTURE OF MOBILE APPLICATION

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• The future is not only bright for consumers but also those working in application

development fields.

• The projected job growth for Mobile Application Developers is 131% and with an

average salary of $115,000 per year.

• Mobile Application Development is be considered one of the most promising careers in

the job market.

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SO, WHAT IS NEXT?

AFGHANISTAN!

MOBILE VISION

• Afghanistan’s mobile market continued on its positive expansion path in 2013, although

at a somewhat slower rate;

• By end-2013 mobile coverage (population) had reached 90% according to the MCIT;

• by early 2014, five mobile operators had been assigned 3G concessions;

• most importantly the price of internet is dropping;

• Opportunity for developers!

• Impact of ongoing political and civil unrest on the telecom sector.

QUESTIONS?

THANK YOU!