Here's some Wednesday coffee break reading: you'll remember Steve Jobs claiming in 2007 that the original iPhone was five years ahead of the competition? Now AT&T's CTO has been bragging that "in the past 3 years, the US has been the clear leader when it comes to phones, design, operating systems and applications." Like a red rag to a bull - top industry analyst Tomi Ahonen here rips into the claims and points out the innovation from Japan and Finland, among others. His metrics also point to the USA now rising to 19th in the world in terms of mobile adoption and technology, now level with, ahem... Portugal. Grab a hot drink and treat yourself!

Extract:

"So yes, the world leaders? The most innovative mobile market is Japan. You can see the future of mobile in your country if you visit Japan today. Other very advanced mobile markets include South Korea, Italy, Singapore, Finland, Estonia etc. Even the UK is in the top 10 most advanced markets in mobile telecoms.  If you have experts or companies or developers or digital agencies or tech pundits who are based in those countries, odds are they are showing you true global innovations. If you listen to US based experts without any global view, odds are you are learng the equivalent of what Iran now knows about spaceworms and rats in space. "