Here I am, late night, on the couch watching Matt Cassell’s amazing last second TD pass to Moss. Oh, I think I have Matty on the bench in one of my fantasy leagues…oops.
But this isn’t about fantasy football. This is about the fact that I am writing on my blog, checking email across three email accounts, reading about today’s wild stock market session and doing about six other things on my computer, er uh, my iPhone.
As an EIR, I have half my mind in “investor” mode and half my brain in “operator” mode, and in both cases I become more convinced that mobile is where computing power (usage) is headed.
Seriously, what does your computer have that the iPhone doesn’t? Bigger screen, Office software and high-end gaming. Maybe, but the only one of those that lasts long-term is the bigger screen.
Think about your next business trip. Do you really need to lug your laptop with you? Think about your weekend and evening work. Do you really need to boot up your PC?
The answers are “no” and “not really”.
The new kids on the block for Election ’08 weren’t even around in ’04. My own consumption pattern tonite started with my wife watching (for the third time this weekend) the veep debate re-run on Fox Business Channel. Of course, it was via DirecTV so it was via DVR — couldn’t name a single commercial if you asked me.
The debate sparked a bit of late Sunday night interest on my part to go a bit deeper on what’s happening on the Election front (notwithstanding Karl Rove’s prediction that Obama will get 273 Electoral College votes).
So as I was updating my Twitter message, I clicked in to their Election ’08 “Twitter” — which brought me to the BBC story about Obama’s iPhone app — which compelled me to download the app from the iPhone App Store — which would have compelled me to “Call Friends” from battleground states if wasn’t too darn late (though that feature is pretty clever isn’t it?).
Add all this up and you get the picture. The way users will increasingly follow everything is via the broader community, not via just the experts on TV (or certainly print). Hopefully the experts will spend time figuring out how to use Twitter and iPhone apps…and whatever emerges tomorrow on the digital media publishing front.
Comments