Comments on: Can you live without a mobile phone? http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2008/04/22/can-you-live-without-a-mobile-phone/ Interactive marketing and e-commerce strategy blog for the local, mobile, social web Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:15:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Is the social, mobile web too small to care about? http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2008/04/22/can-you-live-without-a-mobile-phone/#comment-2395 Is the social, mobile web too small to care about? Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:49:11 +0000 http://www.timpeter.com/blog/?p=451#comment-2395 [...] networking on the mobile web back? Mike Moran thinks it’s the cost of data plans. I think it just hasn’t hit the tipping point yet. Well, that and the [...] […] networking on the mobile web back? Mike Moran thinks it’s the cost of data plans. I think it just hasn’t hit the tipping point yet. Well, that and the […]

]]> By: Mike Moran http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2008/04/22/can-you-live-without-a-mobile-phone/#comment-2253 Mike Moran Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:26:43 +0000 http://www.timpeter.com/blog/?p=451#comment-2253 I hadn't thought about the people network part. I think that is an excellent insight. I hadn’t thought about the people network part. I think that is an excellent insight.

]]> By: Tim http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2008/04/22/can-you-live-without-a-mobile-phone/#comment-2202 Tim Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:24:34 +0000 http://www.timpeter.com/blog/?p=451#comment-2202 Exactly, Mike. Great points. Upon further review, I think adoption will depend on a combination of three factors: <ul> <li>Network speed</li> <li>Screen size (I don't think small form factors lend themselves to, for example, real work on a spreadsheet)</li> <li>Access to your people network. As above, if your family, friends, and colleagues don't use a particular service, your need for it shrinks big time</li> </ul> Thanks for the comment and for reading. Exactly, Mike. Great points. Upon further review, I think adoption will depend on a combination of three factors:

  • Network speed
  • Screen size (I don’t think small form factors lend themselves to, for example, real work on a spreadsheet)
  • Access to your people network. As above, if your family, friends, and colleagues don’t use a particular service, your need for it shrinks big time

Thanks for the comment and for reading.

]]> By: Mike Moran http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2008/04/22/can-you-live-without-a-mobile-phone/#comment-2201 Mike Moran Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:57:15 +0000 http://www.timpeter.com/blog/?p=451#comment-2201 I read your blog regularly, Tim, but this post really hit home with me. I have a five-year-old cell phone (yeah, really high-tech), and have never bothered to get even Web access for it. I rarely do text messaging because it's so painful for me to tap out the message on those teeny keys. So I went to the store a few months ago in search of a new cell phone and walked out with...a broadband connection for my laptop instead. And it's been nothing short of a revelation for me. All the time that I had to prepare work ahead of time before I traveled (print out all the research before you write the next chapter, print out the directions to the hotel, etc.) has now disappeared. So, I still think that I will eventually get a real cell phone (probably with a QWERTY keyboard) so I can join the 21st century, but I found as you did that broadband access was a real game-changer. I also agree with you that mobile is still coming, just a lot more slowly than people expected. When wireless companies make mobile work the way the Web works (flat rate from your ISP for all you can eat), then watch it take off. I read your blog regularly, Tim, but this post really hit home with me. I have a five-year-old cell phone (yeah, really high-tech), and have never bothered to get even Web access for it. I rarely do text messaging because it’s so painful for me to tap out the message on those teeny keys. So I went to the store a few months ago in search of a new cell phone and walked out with…a broadband connection for my laptop instead.

And it’s been nothing short of a revelation for me. All the time that I had to prepare work ahead of time before I traveled (print out all the research before you write the next chapter, print out the directions to the hotel, etc.) has now disappeared.

So, I still think that I will eventually get a real cell phone (probably with a QWERTY keyboard) so I can join the 21st century, but I found as you did that broadband access was a real game-changer.

I also agree with you that mobile is still coming, just a lot more slowly than people expected. When wireless companies make mobile work the way the Web works (flat rate from your ISP for all you can eat), then watch it take off.

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