A new report just issued by respected tech industry blog Gigaom backs this up -- in a big way. It predicts mobile video chat revenues to reach $3.4 Billion by 2015.
In my view, Apple will be a significant driver in the mainstreaming of mobile video chat, in much the same way it has mainstreamed mobile music (with the iPod), mobile truly smart phones (with the iPhone), and most recently mobile tablet computing (with the iPad).
And, one of my predictions for big announcements later today by Steve Jobs will be just that -- i.e., that Apple's new iPhone 4G will feature iChat and video cameras on both sides. I first made this prediction in December 2006. Okay, I was a bit early, but I always merely said that it was inevitable!
In other words, the sea change begins later today ...
