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Not to mention people who use facebook only through the phone app are not likely to ever search for facebook on google. I'm often amazed at how almost-completel
by cag_ii 10y ago
Not to mention people who use facebook only through the phone app are not likely to ever search for facebook on google. I'm often amazed at how almost-completely phones have replaced "desktop computers" for many people I know (Anecdotal, I know).
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- sparkzilla 10y agoI agree with this to the extent that I don't even care if my site ranks well on Google. The traffic coming directly from Facebook is so much greater.
- mattnumbe 10y agoI've been in Japan for the last 7 years and it always bewilders me that so few people own desktop/laptop computers here but everybody is on the internet 24/7. (possibly not only anecdotal...)
- MaulingMonkey 10y agoI've heard explanations for this involving smaller, more space constrained apartments - and thus less interest in filling it up with yet another machine (tm) and less interest in spending time cramped up at home. This also goes hand in hand with e.g. PC Bangs being more popular over there.
- fian 10y agoI wonder if this might also go some way towards explaining the salary-man phenomenon. Where employees do excessive overtime at the office. Presumably at the office, they have a work provided laptop/desktop and internet connection. Also the office space may be more spacious in total than their apartments with most of the amenities of home. Thus they may derive a benefit from staying at the office during the evening rather than going home to a smaller space and no computer.
- maruhan2 10y agoThis is precisely the case for me. I neither have proper space nor the interest to have a computer at home. When I come home from work, spending time on the phone handles everything.
- maruhan2 10y agoPC bangs popular in Japan? I don't know the answer, but I doubt that since Japan doesn't play enough pc games.
- sumedh 10y agoLot of people in India did not even use desktops because of the high costs they directly jumped to mobile.
- aedron 10y agoIt is possible shrinking PCs/all-in-ones will make a difference in this. A nicely designed all-in-one PC is a lot more palatable and manageable to the average person than the old tower/cables/monitor/speakers/etc.