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Why mobile applications will become more important in the future
1. Why mobile applications will become more important in the future Based on the paper "Mobile as 7th Mass Media" by Alan Moore (SMLXL, 2007). Free downloadable on request at http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/02/mobile_the_7th_.html Andreas Bossard
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websites are also applications
Benefits in comparison with other medias. Especially desktop computers
60% of married mobile phone owners will not share their phone with their spouses. if we lose our wallet , on average we report it in 26 hours . But if we lose our mobile phone , on average we report it in about 1 hour .
2005: 6 out of 10 people sleep with the mobile phone physically in bed with them 72% of the population use the mobile phone as their alarm clock. The phone is taken to the restroom
Applications can inform you based on your context. E.g. if you are in a certain location
in South Korea all credit card companies enable their credit cards to the owners’ mobile phones by default, offering to send an optional old-fashioned plastic credit card to the customer’s home address for free. Slovenia every vending machine, every McDonalds restaurant and every taxicab accepts payment by mobile phone
(convergence of user&creator) User can not only consume , but also produce. Not only text, but also video . E.g. reportings of Haiti . Whenever they feel like communicating or producing content and distributing , they can do it.
Has to do with point number 1: is personal Marketers dream: Unique identification (is not even possible for computers.) Accurate Advertisements Other contextual data e.g. location , can be used for advertisement