Kleiner Perkins investor Mary Meeker's annual presentation on internet trends
is always worth reading in full, which you can do below. But one chart
in her new report particularly caught our eye because it's all about
glass.
As we've argued,
media are best understood as a competition for attention on
glass-panelled devices connected to the internet. Phones, tablets, PCs,
television sets—it's all just glass. But, of course, it does matter what
kinds of glass are attracting more attention.
Meeker's
chart breaks that down nicely‚ with the added benefit of explaining
that the situation varies widely across countries. The US and UK, for
instance, are quite different from Vietnam and Saudi Arabia. Or even
just looking at Indonesia and the Philippines, which spend the most time
staring at screens, provides an interesting comparison.