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Mobile World Congress: Is it worth going?

10th January 2012

My answer to Mobile World Congress: Is it worth going? on Quora

It depends on what you want to get out of it. I haven’t been myself, but from what I’ve heard MWC is the Mobile world’s equivalent of something like SXSW—huge (49,000+ people), sprawling, bewildering and full of everyone you could possibly want to meet from the mobile world.

Tim Bray has an interesting account of last year’s event: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/Whe...