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Mobile Web

In both poorer countries (see “The Next Billion”) and richer ones, any company’s success online is coming to be defined by how well it serves mobile users. Here we track the contests between device makers, the burgeoning app economy, the great mobile debates (App or web? Phone or phablet? Laptop or tablet?) and the struggles to satisfy the mobile world’s insatiable thirst for bandwidth.

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MOBILE WARS
Intel’s so-called culture of meritocracy is costing 12,000 people their jobs
Quartz • May 16, 2016
Global interest in the iPhone SE is weaker than for earlier models, but not in two key markets
Quartz • March 30, 2016
AGREE TO DISAGREE
Apple insists tablets are the future of computing, but consumers aren’t buying it
Quartz • March 22, 2016
NOT SO DELICIOUS
A short guide to supercookies: whether you’re being tracked and how to opt out
Quartz • March 8, 2016
MEERLY A PIVOT
It’s official: Meerkat has lost the live-streaming battle to Periscope
Quartz • March 5, 2016
HEAD ROOM
There’s still plenty of room for Instagram to grow in the US
Quartz • February 22, 2016
FROM ZERO TO 13 BILLION
Facebook has created a $13 billion mobile-ad business in four years
Quartz • January 27, 2016