Comments on: 2007: The year of “The Real Internet” http://www.postneo.com/2007/06/19/2007-the-year-of-the-real-internet what comes next? Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:15:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: pauldwaite http://www.postneo.com/2007/06/19/2007-the-year-of-the-real-internet#comment-90784 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:26:52 +0000 http://www.postneo.com/2007/06/19/2007-the-year-of-the-real-internet#comment-90784 > If hardly anyone actually wants it, how come Opera Mini has 15 million users and counting, and the mobile web browser market in general is exploding in size? I must admit, I don't know much about the mobile phone market. But when I say "hardly anyone", I mean as a proportion of the entire population. In his January Macworld keynote, Steve Jobs said that, in 2006, 956 million mobile phones were sold. 15 million Opera mobile users is 1.5% of that. Then we've got all the mobile phone owners who didn't buy theirs in 2006, and I'd query whether 15 million people use Opera mobile regularly, or whether it's been downloaded 15 million times. I'm not saying mobile web access is useless. I reckon in a few years many of us won't know how we lived without it. But most of what I do on the internet is general information-gathering. I can't see people wanting to do that in a mobile context very much. Quickly getting specific bits of data (e.g. train times, bar locations), yeah. Plus, at the moment, data can be very expensive depending on your country and mobile phone network. > If hardly anyone actually wants it, how come Opera Mini has 15 million users and counting, and the mobile web browser market in general is exploding in size?

I must admit, I don’t know much about the mobile phone market. But when I say “hardly anyone”, I mean as a proportion of the entire population. In his January Macworld keynote, Steve Jobs said that, in 2006, 956 million mobile phones were sold. 15 million Opera mobile users is 1.5% of that.

Then we’ve got all the mobile phone owners who didn’t buy theirs in 2006, and I’d query whether 15 million people use Opera mobile regularly, or whether it’s been downloaded 15 million times.

I’m not saying mobile web access is useless. I reckon in a few years many of us won’t know how we lived without it. But most of what I do on the internet is general information-gathering. I can’t see people wanting to do that in a mobile context very much. Quickly getting specific bits of data (e.g. train times, bar locations), yeah.

Plus, at the moment, data can be very expensive depending on your country and mobile phone network.

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]]> by: Mokki http://www.postneo.com/2007/06/19/2007-the-year-of-the-real-internet#comment-87428 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:16:14 +0000 http://www.postneo.com/2007/06/19/2007-the-year-of-the-real-internet#comment-87428 If hardly anyone actually wants it, how come Opera Mini has 15 million users and counting, and the mobile web browser market in general is exploding in size? If hardly anyone actually wants it, how come Opera Mini has 15 million users and counting, and the mobile web browser market in general is exploding in size?

]]> by: pauldwaite http://www.postneo.com/2007/06/19/2007-the-year-of-the-real-internet#comment-86597 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:59:36 +0000 http://www.postneo.com/2007/06/19/2007-the-year-of-the-real-internet#comment-86597 I wonder how many more years will be declared "The Year Of The Mobile Web" before we realise that, hey, hardly anyone actually wants it? At least not in the forms it's currently available in. I wonder how many more years will be declared “The Year Of The Mobile Web” before we realise that, hey, hardly anyone actually wants it? At least not in the forms it’s currently available in.

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