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clrmoney
clrmoney
3/23/2017 10:54:49 AM
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Smartphones double usage
I 'm not really rhat surprised with smartphone penetration usage because we use it a lot now especially for mobile video. They also siad that it affected Youtube because viewers were watching more on mobile. I thought that would be a plus for them but I guess not.

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Ariella
Ariella
3/23/2017 12:00:45 PM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
<Mobile usage (including tablets) is now two hours and fifty-one minutes per day for US consumers over 18> Nearly three hours: that's quite a chunk of one's day. Would osme of that overlap with other usage, say, looking over the phone while watching TV or the like?

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Ariella
Ariella
3/23/2017 12:00:45 PM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
<Mobile usage (including tablets) is now two hours and fifty-one minutes per day for US consumers over 18> Nearly three hours: that's quite a chunk of one's day. Would osme of that overlap with other usage, say, looking over the phone while watching TV or the like?

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dcawrey
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3/23/2017 1:15:58 PM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
PCs are old news. 

With mobile devices, people have so much more flexibility. This is why I think despite fits and starts wearables will eventually become popular. The smartphone as a form factor will eventually become outdated. 

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Adi
Adi
3/24/2017 10:15:58 AM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
Ariella - very likely. Media "multitasking" is well-researched behavior, and a lot of the extra minutes that digital media seems to be adding to the day is because of it. Smartphones are the most likely to be used for multitasking. There's also activities like checking email while on public transport, or texting while walking down a busy street.That's basically adding hours to your day. 

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Adi
Adi
3/24/2017 10:17:09 AM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
dcawrey - the intersection of AR and wearables is interesting. I think AR will be an important driver for adoption of connected glasses.

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Ariella
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3/24/2017 10:37:41 AM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
@Adi Indeed, it's rare to see someone waiting on a line or walking on the street who is not doing something on a phone today.

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dcawrey
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3/25/2017 3:25:18 PM
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Re: Smartphones double usage
There's only so many phones that can be sold by wireless providers and device makers...

I mean, I guess I could buy another phone. Given how bad battery life is on these things it might be a smart bet. 

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JohnBarnes
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3/25/2017 7:20:18 PM
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Funny thing about market saturation
It always takes a few institutions by surprise. If you think of resistance to a technology being on a bell curve, the early adopters are, say, three or four sigma in the direction of low resistance, and there are just a few of them, but as the tech matures, you hit that big bulge and suddenly you have a boom and a license to print money.  Once you're out on the other end -- three or four sigma of high adoption resistance -- all that's left is the people who hate the tech and wouldn't take it for free. 

But while you were filling that big central bulge, you built a huge production capacity to supply the apparently bottomless need.  And now that very large capacity is trying to find customers in  a tiny, highly resistant population.

Next step: price crash. Bet on it.

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elizabethv
elizabethv
3/25/2017 8:27:52 PM
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Not surprising
Recently, my 70ish year old mother-in-law got her first smartphone. Because she had no choice. They went to the store to get her a new phone because her old flip phone had finally bit the dust. And the only phone they could offer for a replacement was a smartphone. Some kind of random Samsung I haven't heard of before, but it does all the same things my Samsung does. And while initially she swore she would only use the basic features of the phone, with time, she has started using more and more of the "smart" features. As for me, more often than not, I'd rather just use my phone (it's in my pocket, I don't have to go into our home office to use it, which inevitably attracts the attention of my children.) But I can't see ever actually getting rid of a desktop. I still need my desktop for multiple things (or why would I sit here with my 2-year-old on my lap, watching YouTube videos while I type this?) We've adapted to having our smartphones, there should be no question of that. But I can't see them completely replacing the full-functionality of the desktop for even most of us. 

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