The Evolution of Mobile Gambling
Mobile gambling is constantly evolving, but there’s more to it than keeping apace with the competition and coming up with new ideas. The internet – in particular the exploding mobile sector – has seen some areas disappear into the ether and others expand to such a degree that they have become almost separate entities in their own right.
One such is the world of social media, which nowadays plays a role in the lives of millions across the globe. And it shows no sign of slowing down as mobile internet devices such as smartphones become the ubiquitous sign of our staying ‘in touch’ wherever we are.
After Facebook dipped more than just the proverbial big toe into online gambling, it’s logical that internet gambling should look to social media to broaden its horizons even further in order to tap into the enormous client pool that could number five billion in the next 10 years.
Ironically, mobile gamblers who seek out online casino entertainment or good value bets through gambling4mobiles may well not be too interested in swapping what they might consider mundane information via a social network but, inevitably, there will come a time when mobile betting on the weekend’s football or putting our online poker strategy into practice is done as a matter of course via social media.
In fact evolution could be affecting us humans, too, as a new keyboard has been created which enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices. Named KALQ (the order the keys appear on the keyboard), it will apparently help people type 34% faster on tablets. And why the suggested change? According to Dr Per Ola Kristensson of the School of Computer Science at St Andrews University, the traditional QWERTY keyboard had trapped users with an inferior system when using mobile devices. Rearranging the keys on the keyboard enables faster thumb typing...
Incidentally, much of how the lay of the land in the UK of online and mobile gambling will pan out depends on how this and successive governments address regulatory matters...
At the time of writing the odds available through Gambling4Mobiles on Britain’s next Prime Minister put Labour leader Ed Miliband as odds-on favourite at 8/11 (Mayor of London Boris Johnson manages to even split the online betting providers, with odds ranging from 8/1 to 16/1...).
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