Comments on: Don’t look to Japan for the mobile future http://newnow.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/dont-look-to-japan-for-the-mobile-future/ Ben Kraal's weblog Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:41:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: japan http://newnow.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/dont-look-to-japan-for-the-mobile-future/#comment-35 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:46:41 +0100 http://newnow.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/dont-look-to-japan-for-the-mobile-future/#comment-35 I found this information helpful, thanks very much. I found this information helpful, thanks very much.

]]> by: Ben Kraal http://newnow.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/dont-look-to-japan-for-the-mobile-future/#comment-26 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:29:06 +0000 http://newnow.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/dont-look-to-japan-for-the-mobile-future/#comment-26 Bull-hockey -- nice :) FWIW, Usage of mobile phones in Australia looks a lot more like phone use in Northern Europe than it does in the US. Until a few years ago we had more mobile phones per capita than **anywhere** except Finland. And you can't tell me Australian's are "shy". I think the reason mobile phone use looks different in the 'States than elsewhere has more to do with the way the carriers have stratified the market (so I understand) than "cultural personalities". Bull-hockey — nice :)

FWIW, Usage of mobile phones in Australia looks a lot more like phone use in Northern Europe than it does in the US. Until a few years ago we had more mobile phones per capita than anywhere except Finland. And you can’t tell me Australian’s are “shy”.

I think the reason mobile phone use looks different in the ‘States than elsewhere has more to do with the way the carriers have stratified the market (so I understand) than “cultural personalities”.

]]> by: Bill Discher http://newnow.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/dont-look-to-japan-for-the-mobile-future/#comment-25 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:07:29 +0000 http://newnow.blogsome.com/2005/11/11/dont-look-to-japan-for-the-mobile-future/#comment-25 I remember, about... five or six years ago? there was alot of talk about instant messaging with cellphones being a phenominon in countries like Japan and some northern European countries, at a time when it was not yet popular in the U.S. Then, the opinion was that the cultural personality tendancies had something to do with it. The idea was that people in some cultures 'tend' to be more out spoken and extraverted while people in other cultures tend to be shy and intriverted. The article (don't ask me who wrote it, its been a while) implied that text-messaging was more popular where ther were larger numbers of shy people. I guess they consider Americans to be more "in your face" extraverts (although we aren't all that way). The question I have is, even if this cultural tendancey is true, can there be a back lash? Will some technologies generate less social (more-intraverted) people or do they just attract intraverted people? or is it all just a load of bull-hockey? I remember, about… five or six years ago? there was alot of talk about instant messaging with cellphones being a phenominon in countries like Japan and some northern European countries, at a time when it was not yet popular in the U.S. Then, the opinion was that the cultural personality tendancies had something to do with it. The idea was that people in some cultures ‘tend’ to be more out spoken and extraverted while people in other cultures tend to be shy and intriverted. The article (don’t ask me who wrote it, its been a while) implied that text-messaging was more popular where ther were larger numbers of shy people. I guess they consider Americans to be more “in your face” extraverts (although we aren’t all that way). The question I have is, even if this cultural tendancey is true, can there be a back lash? Will some technologies generate less social
(more-intraverted) people or do they just attract intraverted people? or is it all just a load of bull-hockey?

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