Hi Katrin I agree that it is simple. However, it is aimed at the guys who think that the wole world owns iPhones and that mobile internet is on the virge of becoming the next big thing.
There are all kinds of different things that are going on. There are super users in unexpected places just as some of the supposed super users are not that super after all. I just did an anaysis of IP traffic in Norway. It turns out that the top 1% of users use 80% of the capacity and that 40% of the people use none at all. This is almost perfect inequality. Roughly translated there are a very few very greedy users (bit torent users?), a middle range of people that down load a little bit (reading the news, etc.) and there is a large group that does not use it at all. The odd thing is that the low and the moderate users are, in some ways, paying for the use of the greedy users. At the same time, the marketing guys are going around talking about the huge marketing success of mobile internet. If you lie with the stats by taking the mean value, then it looks like all of us are using a moderatly large amount of IP traffic when in reality it is just the greedy guys who are eating the whole cake. (are you picking up on my increasing engagement in this argument?) Thus, it is not as simple a picture as I indicate, but I think that it is important to say that there are different types of users and that not everyone is going to turn into a super user. Keep the examples (and the Mexian ringing tone articles) coming. Rich L. From: Katrin Verclas [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 6. april 2009 07:12 To: Ling Richard Seyler (R&I) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mobile-society] The rise of mobile divides HI, Richard - Interesting paper but too simple, the way you describe it right now, I think. See, for example, this article in the NYT today about Mexican music on mobiles, and the use of mobiles in immigrant communities in the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/arts/music/05kun.html?_r=3. Will keep looking for other, sub-culture or specific cultural uses of mobiles. My own observations in India, in particular, shows that there is a lot more there than your paper indicates -- lots of different types of users that are far more interesting than the "soccer parent' user :) Be well -- and I'll send you more! Katrin On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:28 PM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello all, I am publishing a short paper on the Ning site where I develop the idea of mobile divides. I am interested in the differences between the power users in advanced countries that use a lot of IP stuff, the user in the third world and the sort of soccer mom/dad user that is somewhere in the middle. A lot of attention goes to the first group but the real base of use is often among the other two. I am interested in any comments. The link to the posting is: http://mobilesociety.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-rise-of-mobile-divides There is a further link to the paper there. Rich L. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
