Not the answer I was looking for but the article’s first few lines were good. About as far as I got, though – article is from almost ten years ago. No, no recycled scopes here.
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Survey Says:
According to this, Apple iPhone users love the hardware, the hardware support, the iTunes, everything but the carrier.
In short, “Love Apple, hate AT&T.”
Me, I’m less inclined to have outright hate for AT&T. Did cause a moment when I was trying to upgrade to the second generation iPhone. I play fast and loose with the billing, paying on time, but after the first, and AT&T didn’t like that, showed me in arrears.
Flip that around, one act of kindness – one of those overseas bills – one, single act of generosity by a Customer Service Rep? How easily that gets forgotten by miles of problems.
Five or six cell phones back, when it was actually a cell phone, my contract/carrier was bought by AT&T, and there was a problem, when I went from Austin to Ft. Worth, less than 200 miles, I had to log in and register with the network or something, to make it all work.
Messed up a date with a girlfriend. Never forgiven them for that. So I have, but writing about that made me remember juggling a cell phone and pager, trying to get the phone to work. I had to resort to a pay phone. Wasn’t happy. Technology has advanced.
Where do I fall? I don’t care, frankly, I’ve had calls dropped by all the major carriers, and many of the minor ones, too. Doesn’t matter. Not to me. No brand loyalty for a carrier.
Blogs, Twitter and Facebook:
Sister’s Sagittarius forwarded me marketing research report, one of those PDF files that contains just enough “forward looking” material to be dangerous. Useful, to some, questionable to others. More “white paper” and less content, for the few pages it spanned. Title? “Social Media Review.”
Of interest, Twitter and Facebook are on the rise, but Twitter might surpass FB soon. Although, it’s a tough race. Metrics are slightly different.
I watched, read, in horror, several years ago, when a blog documented using some site like Twitter to run into friends at an airport. Anyone remember MySpace and Friendster? I stayed way from social networking sites because there was always a seedy quality to them. Then too, there’s a fickle nature of net meme’s and themes.
When a site’s is so popular, the inter-tubes-web guys are making notes about the traffic, the source and direction? When qualified research companies are commenting about a site, like FB and Twitter? Is that shark-jumping?
Blog may have peaked, of that I’m clear on the concept. However, there’s the alternative, the delivery method. A web log engine, i.e., WordPress, Blogger &c.? That afford the dynamic method to deliver fresh content, constantly rotating, updated material. I’m fond of the idea of “themes” as WordPress calls them, but to me, it’s just a skin. The technical side, the database where everything is kept? That’s safe and removed from whatever the delivery system is.
I’m – obviously – toying with moving the horoscope delivery vehicle to the WordPress motor. Originally a Houston boy, as I understand it, now grown all other-worldly.
What consistently shows up, though, the web as a medium, it’s divided into two pieces, perhaps quartered now, but still, there’s text and then there’s images. I’ll guess this is further confused with audio and video.
The white paper suggested that the wave of blogs had crested, but other social media hadn’t peaked just yet, although, if I were FaceBook, I’d be glancing over my shoulder and worrying. Same for Twitter – has Twitter come up with a monetize the company’s traffic without offending the consumers?
I’ve long-dealt with the web as a fluid medium instead of going for the more traditional interpretations. Not unlike my astrology work, either, non-traditional in essence.
I’ve got a couple of web addresses that the only reference to the sites are internal. Therefore, if something changes? I only have to remove internal pointers. Like my FaceBook account. As it sits, these days, my blog pings my Twitter, which then pings my FaceBook, while my Linked-in account picks up my blog directly. Confused?
Sidebar:
Them: You need to be on Twitter.
Me: Why?
Them: For business reasons.
Me: ???
Them: You just should be!
Without quantification. Best line I’ve heard so far?
“I’m on FaceBook to keep up with the grandkids.”