- #TWITTERRIFIC HELP MUFFLE WHOLE THREAD INSTALL#
- #TWITTERRIFIC HELP MUFFLE WHOLE THREAD DRIVERS#
- #TWITTERRIFIC HELP MUFFLE WHOLE THREAD DRIVER#
#TWITTERRIFIC HELP MUFFLE WHOLE THREAD DRIVER#
I was banking on urban 20-somethings, but I love the idea of it hitting cab driver clusters. The price is still out of reach for most high schoolers who rely on parental pass-me-downs, but it has a decent chance of hitting other clusters. For the most part, everyone is stuck on AT&T. The iPhone has the best chance of hitting that tipping point of anything out there. Still, if you look at the AIM usage in those clusters, you get a good indicator of the potential. The Sidekick was impressive amongst deaf communities and urban youth, but T-Mobile managed to lock that puppy down so heavily that no innovative practices really emerged. There’s the Crackberry, but that audience isn’t exactly the most innovatively social. So far, there have been few examples of dense mobile adoption platforms. This kills mobile social software from the getgo.
#TWITTERRIFIC HELP MUFFLE WHOLE THREAD INSTALL#
The result is that I can’t install an app onto my phone and expect all of my friends to be able to play along. Even if all of my friends have a Nokia N95, the likelihood that we’re all on the same carrier with the same plan is next to null. (Those who lack general access tend to have friends who lack access.) Mobile phones are different. In terms of clusters, the barriers to Facebook or MySpace are more personal than infrastructural. We take cluster effects for granted in the Internet space because, by and large, entire friend groups can jump onto a computer, grab a browser, and login to a website. In other words, cluster effects are the cool things that people do when all of their friends can do the same things. Cluster effects describe the emergent practices that occur when the density of infrastructure adoption in a social network reaches a critical tipping point. I’ve been anxiously awaiting this launch in the hopes that it might show the power of cluster effects wrt mobile phones. I could just see the joy in this driver’s face as he imagined when he’d be able to look at the screen and see all of his friends on the map buzzing around the city alongside dots telling him which surface streets to avoid. While they’re always tethered to their company, the iPhone would let them connect to one another all day long.
#TWITTERRIFIC HELP MUFFLE WHOLE THREAD DRIVERS#
Those who hang out at the airport have strong networks of fellow cab drivers who wait with them. Cab drivers in my city are always so excited to see a familiar face on the road and they wave enthusiastically. I had never thought about the cab driver case. My driver was starting to agree with his cousin (who should definitely be earning commission for his iPhone sale). Not only would it give real-time traffic info but it would let him know where his fellow cab friends were with ease.
His cousin thought it would completely change what it meant to be a cab driver in LA. I remarked on this to the cab driver and he smiled and raised his Gen 1 iPhone, telling me that his cousin wanted him to borrow it for a few days to convince him to get one. They sold out quickly and are still sold out. What shocked me even more was that the diverse group didn’t look like typical Apple consumers. On Friday morning, I was shocked to find my always-empty neighborhood AT&T store host to a long line of iPhone cravers.
0 kommentar(er)
