Nice (but slightly repetitive) predictions for what trends are going to be around in 10 years time.
Oddly no one mentions free ad-funded mobile phones, or manufacturers advertising directly into the core user interface (i.e idle screen etc).
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Are you looking forward to getting your hands on the Pre? Oh you haven’t heard of it? It’s the new phone that Palm are releasing that all your friends are talking about..oh they aren’t? Right then.
Market research firm TNS recently interviewed 1000 UK adults aged 16 to 64 and a massive 26% responded that they would definitely or probably buy the Palm Pre when it’s launched this Friday. An even bigger percentage (32%) said they would switch networks to O2, who have exclusivity, to get the Pre.
Ok first things first, following the news of Vodafone and Orange/T-Mobile selling the iPhone, do TNS believe that these customers are going to switch to O2 when they can finally get their hands on the iPhone? After 2 years of being sold crappy iPhone alternatives, I don’t customers are going to go through the hassle of changing.
I can’t tell you how many friends of mine that asked the sales rep for ‘the closest thing to a iPhone’ on their last upgrade only to be let down by some clunky HTC or Samsung device. Read More
Everybody loves these “If Facebook were a country, it would be bigger than Brazil” (yeah but with about the Gross National Product of Manchester) type of videos with loads of stats. Here’s some of the better ones.
It’s always interesting to watch different trends and behavior slowly emerge on Facebook. You can tell alot about the mindset of your demographic by keeping an eye out for reoccurring theme across different friends status updates whether it’s about a film, person, product or general feeling towards something.
When Facebook first came on the scene I remember it being a race to see who could get the most friends, this seem to define your real life social standing. On several occasions down the pub I kept being asked how many friends I had on Facebook and being constantly beaten by others with a few hundred people more than me. My reply of ’Yeah but how many of them do you actually want to speak to’ fell on deaf ears.
The mentality of quantity over quality might have had something to do with many users emigrating from Myspace where you usually just add anyone and everyone. Myspace of course was no where near as personal as Facebook back then, most people don’t even have there full or real name on there. Then on top of that you have fears of identity theft, getting sacked and various stalker behavior.
Over time users have realised that maybe adding people you don’t know that well and letting them go through all your photos, friends and personal info probably isn’t a good idea. Check out the status updates from pals above, they are getting more and more common.
It all came to a conclusion when a friend recently said ‘How many Facebook friends are you down to these days?’
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