The stating of the blindingly obvious, surely?
Rating: living on another planet
JupiterResearch has produced a new report (Mobile Internet: Leave the Browser at Home on the Desktop) that found few people are migrating "desktop" activities to mobile phones. E-mail is one of the most widely used apps that has migrated to mobiles, but frequent users are still hard to find, apparently.
Jupiter reckons this means that the way to improve take-up and usage would be through enabling access via a widget or applet instead of the browser. Not convinced this is the whole story. I cannot bear the idea of receiving and dealing with several hundred emails a day on a mobile device, it’s easy enough to miss the few gems in the slew of rubbish on a 28in screen Mac. Email has reached such epic proportions that it is in danger of becoming counter-productive. Simply transferring email onto mobile isn’t going to help.
Still, I do see the point. David Schatsky, president of JupiterResearch, comments, “Browser alternatives such as widgets or applets that allow content to be easily accessed from a home screen or with just a few clicks [actually a few clicks is not good enough, David]…so that accessing information in this manner will eventually become second nature."
I have only one comment. Has anyone at Jupiter heard of or used an iPhone or an HTC Touch? The value of applets and widgets has been understood already by a number of us on planet Earth
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