A UK mobile phone comparison website interviewed more than a thousand mobile users and found that the phone is "eating" MP3 players, cameras and calculators, as reported in Mobile Entertainment.
This was my point two years ago, when I wrote a piece on the Mobile Juggernaut.
The power of mobile is reinforced by similar news items nearly every day. The list of products and services that mobile has profoundly effected (or sent to the museum) continues to grow. In telecoms alone, mobile has filled a graveyard: payphones, calling cards, domestic long distance (and the companies that offered LD), even landline phone service. Consider that over the last decade, the number of fixed telephone lines has been declining by 4-6% per year while mobile penetration has grown from 39% to 92% today, according to UBS. The crossover point, when mobile lines exceeded fixed in the US, was 2004.
That's just the telecoms industry. And it's not just MP3 players, cameras and calculators in the UK study that have been cannibalized by mobile. Handheld navigation devices, wristwatches, PDAs, TV, games, and soon wallets will be a thing of the past. And with the Kindle and soon iPad, don't forget books (not on my Juggernaut list two years ago) or laptops.
Why put anything else in your pocket?
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