Shocked... We're not!!
Maybe surprised they didn't realize the pent-up demand for 'all-you-can-eat' data plans.
Doh!
Death of land-lines
But here's a real shocker, AT&T was equally oblivious to the fact that the death of the land-line was caused by the disconnect of phone features from phone to phone (especially speed-dial) and the nickel and dime ransom for features.
Vonage says it well with their TV ads... 'What have you done for 100 years? Answer: Raise prices.
Mobile Disconnect Solved by 1-Dash and 1-Dial Domains
Mobile users feel the disconnect from their PCs and land-line phones because of the loss of bookmarks and speed dial. 1-Dash and 1-Dial Domain offer ease of use and a memory hook for marketeers wishing to reach mobile surfers.
"Google searches from my iPhone are high because Apple makes it so damned easy."
Yes, and our 1-Dash & 1-Dial Domains are even better because it eliminates the search step altogether!
Link: The Apple Core | ZDNet.com
February 15th, 2008 -- Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 5:57 am
Search titan Google and mobile phone carrier AT&T have been stunned by iPhone users usage patterns according to reports in recent days.
AppleInsider reports that Google has seen 50 times more search requests
coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset. They were so
shocked, in fact, that they suspected that they had made an error
tabulating their data.
According to the Financial Times Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations, said that if other handset manufacturers follow in Apple’s footsteps and make Web access easier on their handsets the number of mobile searches could outpace fixed internet search “within the next several years.”
I know that my Google searches from my iPhone are high because Apple makes it so damned easy.
The Google search bar pops up right below (and as large as) the URL field. Why guess at a URL when Google is right there? I know lots of people that don’t even try URLs any more, they just Google everything – even domain names!
Is the address bar doomed?
In related news René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG, says iPhone is driving up average wireless data usage as much as 30 times higher than on other phones. The average Internet usage for an iPhone customer is more than 100 MBytes. Which is 30 times the use for their average contract-based consumer.AT&T’s announcement of new business and international roaming plans and their replacement of T-Mobile as the Wifi provider at 7,000 U.S. company-owned Starbucks stores nationwide should only accelerate data usage in the months to come.A quick peek at my last two months iPhone data usage shows that I used 110MB in February and 169MB in January. You’ve gotta love those domestic unlimited data plans!
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