"But I STILL Love Technology... Always and Forever"
After reading The Economist article, Looking for the Pot of Gold, I'd say they are pretty right on about the future of e-commerce via mobile phones. The only lucrative future I could see in this area would be using it to buy things such as food (a wireless www.waitless.com), movie/concert tickets, making travel arrangements and paying for parking...you know.. all things you do on the go.
Connection speed isn't advanced enough to handle the graphics of 100 pictures of GAP skirts to load onto your tiny cell phone screen. We're so used to the speed we have at home, that trying to access the same sites on a mobile device using a slower connection, is just, well, too frustrating for me.
I also think there is a bright future for linking mobile e-commerce to mobile navigation systems. If you type in "movie theatre" and your location, wouldn't it be great to be able to automatically buy tickets to a movie at the theatre of your choice? Lunch lines...what if you typed in the word "deli" and were automatically able to place your order to the nearest deli and pay all in a couple clicks on your keypad then bypass that long lunch line to pick up your order?
Shopping for clothes on my phone? Not an exciting idea, but being able to simplify and streamline my life through my phone...very exciting idea!
Connection speed isn't advanced enough to handle the graphics of 100 pictures of GAP skirts to load onto your tiny cell phone screen. We're so used to the speed we have at home, that trying to access the same sites on a mobile device using a slower connection, is just, well, too frustrating for me.
I also think there is a bright future for linking mobile e-commerce to mobile navigation systems. If you type in "movie theatre" and your location, wouldn't it be great to be able to automatically buy tickets to a movie at the theatre of your choice? Lunch lines...what if you typed in the word "deli" and were automatically able to place your order to the nearest deli and pay all in a couple clicks on your keypad then bypass that long lunch line to pick up your order?
Shopping for clothes on my phone? Not an exciting idea, but being able to simplify and streamline my life through my phone...very exciting idea!
4 Comments:
Have you tried Google's SMS service? It does a lot of what you are talking about. I use is for weather and the nearest starbucks all of the time!
http://www.google.com/sms/
By Kathie Legg, at 5:09 PM
No, I haven't used it yet, but will. Thanks for the tip. One more reason for me to love Google.
By Blusher, at 5:31 PM
Dig the Napoleon Dynamite reference:) Sweet!
By BlueGirl, at 6:24 PM
I know that my "L3" phone isn't the best technology ( I imagine that Blackberry's are better) but it takes forever for me to do simple things on my Webb phone. It takes me almost 5 minutes to find a current baseball score. Terrible! I feel like I'm back in college waiting for one page to load on our 15K dial up modem. I aggree with the Blusher, speed and the ability to handle complex html formats like "Flash" will be key to making this mainstream.
Good work reading the Economist Blusher!!
By Tucker Fan, at 7:02 PM
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