Mobility on the Move

The Herman Trend Alert is a weekly email that spans a wide range of topics with IT trends being one of the more popular topics.  This week’s email offers some trend details on mobile computing.  First, a stat that surprised me:

Interestingly, in the United States and Japan, mobile worker penetration has essentially peaked. Outside of those countries, there are large worker populations that are still growing.

I would think mobile workers are still on the upswing in this country, but the recession may be putting a damper on those numbers.  But here is the reason why:

Moreover, the key findings reveal the US will remain the most highly concentrated market for mobile workers with 75.5 percent of the workforce, or 119.7 million workers, being mobile by 2013. By percentage, Japan is a close second at 74.5 percent.

Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) represents the largest total number of mobile workers throughout the forecast, with growth to 734.5 million or 37.4 percent of the total workforce in 2013. By this time, 62 percent of the world’s mobile workforce will live in the APeJ region.

We’re already well saturated in this country.  As the report states, the mobility software market is going to be huge.