Saw this sign the other day and made me think about the innovators lag. This store is moving online just as more of my work with Pollenizer is moving onto mobile. Web is still big and I spend more time off-line than on (although some days that may not be true), but mobile is the growing bud.
I expect @mpesce and @oliverw to say “Um, yeah, derrr!”
But what about you?
Are you MoMobile yet?
Are you stilling wearing in your online shoes?
Or do you love the tangible feel of a newspaper and the crisp sound of a vinyl record?
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2 responses so far ↓
1 JJ Halans // Aug 19, 2008 at 1:13 am
CitySoftware is kind of a bad example. Their North Sydney store was pretty bad. They have been online all the time, and they distribute a periodical catalogue (with call center and online ordering).
But it’s kind of complex. It would be a combination of price, availability, impulse.
I buy books at Amazon US because it’s still a lot cheaper. If I need it now, I’ll buy one from Dymocks or Kino (if they have them).
If I’m not sure, I’ll browse the book in a bookstore, compare prices online (on mobile) and then order online (on the desktop).
I love to browse eBay on the desktop, keep a watch list, and then with GarageBuy on my iPhone keep an eye out for my bids.
But then again the iPhone is a game changer. Mobile (web) before the iPhone sucked big time. I think we’ll see a lot of changes where desktop and mobile blur into each other, especially with services like MobileMe (once it works) or MS Mesh (or the cloud in general).
2 Abi // Aug 19, 2008 at 1:46 am
Theirs the innovators lag but there’s also the mainstream lag. Mobile, while coming, will take years to get the market. The quality of the experience is the major impediment and an intsy wincy screen is just too painful. They’ll get there, mainstream, eventually but probably by 2015. Mobile is good for enhanced communications but not the web, yet.
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