Global Mobile: Applications and Innovations for the Worldwide Mobile Ecosystem

摘要

A quotation from popular science author John Agar, "You can tell what a culture values by what it has in its bags and pockets," draws the reader into Rao's opening part, "A World Gone Mobile" (p. 1). Rao compares the pocket watch, a status symbol of the 17th century, with our mobile cell phones of today. He points out that "like watches, cell phones started off as expensive status symbols, ..., but are now owned by billions of people worldwide" (p. 1).