Quick post, I’m about to run out. I was playing around with Google Trends, and awesome tool that I keep forgetting about. I was actually poking around using mobile terms and seeing if anything interesting stood out. Check these two out in particular though:
- WAP
- mobile web
- J2ME (I didn’t have this in originally, just thought it was amusing)
The WAP search line goes down, but the news mentions go up. Interesting. Together with the fact that I know the mobile web is on the rise, but searches for mobile web are just barely starting to tick up, it seems like there’s a disjoin between user expectation and how these things are being presented in the media. What I’m trying to do is figure out what’s driving the growth of the mobile web.. and failing miserably. But, I guess that’s part of sharing, making public your failures as well as successes. “How are people getting into mobile sites?” is my question. Is it driven by carrier decks and portals? Search? Messaging? Word of mouth? How does a “new mobile web user” come into being?
Miker,
Check out mobile internet http://www.google.com/trends?q=mobile+internet&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
WAP should have never been used, like MMS, the public had no idea what these acronyms were. Mobile Internet and picture messaging seem more market apprpriate.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=picture+messaging&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
later Bro
One more interesting trend (to compare with j2me) is Flash Lite, the graph is interesting..