Mobile phone gamblers are expected to exceed 100m people in the next five years according to new research from the team at Juniper, who cite the North American online gambling industry as the main reason.
The number crunchers at Juniper Research have released a report on mobile gaming that predicts the number of people gambling on mobile devices will increase by 100 million people over the next five years.
It’s envisaged that 164 million members of the human race will take a punt, visit a mobile casino, bingo hall or poker room; or purchase a lottery ticket through a mobile or tablet device well before the fireworks hit the sky at the back end of 2018.
So where are all of these new gamblers coming from?
According, to the Juniper Research team, they are siding with Gov. Chris Christie, and not the 15th richest person on the planet Sheldon Adelson, in their belief that it will be the North American market that sees mobile growth explode in the coming years.
The logic is as simple as the evidence that lies before it. If you build a successful online gambling business then a huge mobile crowd duly follows like rats chasing after a stupidly dressed man blowing on his pipe.
During World Water Day back in March of this year, the U.N stated that of the 7 billion people that roam this earth, 6 billion of them have access to mobile devices. The U.N chose the mobile statistics to drive home the unbelievable facts that only 4.5bn people have access to a working toilet, 2.5bn don’t have proper sanitation, and due to inadequate toilet facilities, 1.1bn take a dump out in the open air (whilst gambling on a mobile phone no doubt).
So with 12bn eyeballs glued to these addictive little love screens, and Nevada, Delaware and New Jersey showing the other 47 states how to create additional coin to fill the taxation coffers, you don’t need Albert Einstein to create a report that tells you mobile gambling is going to increase.
So as more and more states join the three pioneers, and more and more people get exposed to online gambling, time will be the confidence booster that will see more and more people start to trust the mobile device particularly when it comes to getting money on and of sites, which invariably means people have to patch their financial information into their mobile device.
We have to remember that it wasn’t long ago that people were scared stiff about putting their financial details into a computer, and now online shopping is an activity carried out by billions of people without even blinking an eye. Mobile financial transactions will no doubt go through a similar process.
All of this means that by the time 2015 comes around it’s expected that mobile gaming will be a $48bn business.
Now who would have thought that when you saw Crockett speaking to Tubbs on a mobile phone the size of a house brick?
