SMS outpacing email among European mobile subscribers
David Weinberger points to a GartnerGroup report that shows that while 41 percent of European adults with mobile services use short messaging (SMS), only 30 percent use email on their phones. The key idea is that SMS is beating email on the phone, and the phone is just one device among many that will connect.
Dr. Weinberger comments:
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at November 24, 2002 10:57 PM | TrackBack
1. Connectedness will happen. How? The basic answer is: Every way.
2. But it's not as if email and SMS compete. Read Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs to see how no-location technologies ("no-loco tech"?) are letting us engage in new ways. (There's a discussion of the book going on now at the Well.Vue. It's long form and fascinating. Some great stuff, including a recounting by Dave Hughes of what followed from his boast that he could wifi every farm in Wales "by turning every Welsh pub into a wireless ISP." )
3. I'm looking forward to the day when the announcement of a new type of human connection is not immediately followed by the phrase "powerful marketing tool." How about something like: "Over 62% of Americans are using ____ to talk with, inform and entertain one another. It therefore promises to provide an antidote to powerful marketing tools."