Posted on 08/21/2009 8:38:24 AM PDT by Star Traveler
iPhone users talk on the phone less than regular cell phone users [ ... ] they spend a whopping 50% more time using their phones than average cell phone users ...
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iPhone users spend 60 minutes per day on their phones versus 40 minutes for cell phone users. iPhone users talk on their phones about 45% of the time they use it versus 70% for cell phone users. [ ... ] What makes up the difference? It's not texting - each type of user spends about 15% of their phone usage texting.
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iPhone users spend 12% of their usage time sending emails, 10% playing music, 8% playing games, and 9% surfing the Internet.
Regular cell phone users spend 4% of their usage time sending emails, 2% playing music, 3% playing games, and 3% surfing the Internet.
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
If you've ever even tried calling a place to get "store hours" for example... LOL... Sometimes it's a nightmare to find out. But, it's easy enough to just go to a website on the iPhone and get the information in short order.... thus, a saved call and a lot of aggravation from that call... :-)
A blurb about iPhone usage...
Yep, it is true. I have used iPhones since day-one, and it is like having my computer with me where ever I go....
Was this a Government study?
What a shock! If your phone can do more things, you will use these things.
I guess Captain Obvious just got an iPhone.
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I don’t know about Captain Obvious... but I can say for myself, I’ve had an iPhone since Apple first introduced them... :-)
First, the use of the word "cause". Does the iPhone beam mind control rays directly into the brain of users "causing" them to talk less? Or, just perhaps, is it a self selecting sample where people who want to go to the internet and play games are more likely to buy an iPhone than just a generic cell phone? Thus the user's desire to access the web is the cause and the purchase of the iPhone is the effect.
Second "iPhone users talk on their phones about 45% of the time they use it versus 70% for cell phone users" does not mean they are talking less. It means that a lower percentage of their usage is for voice. They could be talking more minutes and accessing the internet a LOT more, thus having a lower percentage of talk usage. If you get a phone with a long antenna shaped like a back scratcher and spend 0.1% of your time scratching your back, does that mean you are talking less or just using part of your total time for scratching?
I much prefer txt or email to talking on the phone. In fact, a friend ask me for another friends phone number the other day and I had no idea what it was although it has not changed in years. I just never call them rather refer to them from my contacts and use email, or txt.
You said — What a shock! If your phone can do more things, you will use these things.
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Well..., that’s the big difference with iPhone and those others out there that *can* do those things, but people find it just more trouble than it’s worth to do them on those other phones.
With the iPhone, people do these other things not because they’re there (like they are in other phones), but because it’s *so much easier* to do them on the iPhone.... and *there* is the difference...
The difference is that — *in practice* — the iPhone users do use the other functionality, built into the iPhone so much more than what the other phones have built into them. Apple is the master of the User Interface to the point where the common and average Joe doesn’t have to be a “geek” to use it... :-)
For me—someone that NEVER plays games—my talk time dramatically dropped when I started using the iPhone. Maybe anecdotal, but that is the way it is for me. I txt, or email rather than talk. The iPhone readily provides me with so much info that I guess I have much less need to call.
I find that it’s true that iPhone users do use the iPhone less for talking, at least in my own limited experience and limited contacts. So, to find that someone has looked into that, over a wide range of people — does confirm what I’ve found out on my own.
And that’s not surprising for the functionality that the iPhone has overall, which actually does *cause* and *contribute* to lower phone usage, because of that other functionality that takes the place of the phone usage....
It actually makes it more pleasant for people to have an iPhone as opposed to those other phones out there....
You said — The iPhone readily provides me with so much info that I guess I have much less need to call.
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That’s exactly what I’ve found, too...
If you run the math, iPhone people talk 27 minutes. Other cell phone talk 28 minutes. OMG! Stop the presses!
Even Microsoft now admits...
“APPLE HAS CHANGED THE WAY THE GAME IS PLAYED”, says MSFT Win Mob chief
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2320869/posts
One thing that annoys me, its when people use their iPhones (or other large screened smartphones, but 90% of the time its an iPhone) at the movies, during the movie. Those things can light up rather brightly, and ruin the movie experience.
Jobs (Apple) and Ballmer (Microsoft) speak...
Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR8SAFRBmcU
“The only problem with Microsoft is that they have no taste. They have absolutely no taste!” [Steve Jobs]
“They [Microsoft] don’t think of original ideas and they don’t bring much culture into their product.” [Steve Jobs]
“I have a problem with the fact that they [Microsoft] make really third-rate products.” [Steve Jobs]
“I will admit, quite frankly, that I think Windows, today, is probably four years, behind — three years behind, where it would have been had we not danced with IBM for so long.” [Steve Ballmer]
The least thing I use my iPhone for is... phoning.
With a very useable internet browser, email, directories for just about everything, games, music, radio, maps, gps, compass, level, musical instruments, chat, youtube, camera, etc, etc, it’s an electronic swiss knife on steroids.
I love my iPhone and I am “technically challenged.” It’s a great tool for lightening your purse too!
I now carry with me (in my phone): electronic books, a language translator, webMD, a graphing calculator, a level, a compass, the entire Bible, an ambient sound relaxation app, restaurant and food information, a map of the stars and planets, a complete list of AAA discounts, games, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the complete works of Shakespeare.
That’s in addition to several hundred songs, a few movies, and tons of photos of my family, of course!
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