So over the past 6 years average daily time spent on mobile devices went from <30 minutes --> 3+ hours a day while laptop/desktop/other connected devices remained flat.
That's almost 20% of a waking day. Staggering. I wonder if it actually replaced anything or if it's predominantly multitasking, like watching tv became tv + phone, or people listening to Spotify/Pandora/podcasts instead of the radio.
Does that mean in a few years we'll stop looking at "time on devices" because it's a useless metric and have "what do on devices" buckets?
I mean if I'm watching netflix on web/mobile that should count as TV watching time not as internet/smartphone time. Because who (with acces to on-demand video) even watches broadcast TV anymore?
>> Because who (with acces to on-demand video) even watches broadcast TV anymore?
A lot of people (obviously), myself included. Usually as a time wasting activity. Unfortunately no on demand service really competes with the channel surfing use case yet.
I remember Ms Meeker from dot-com-bomb v1.0. The most likely answer to your question is Ms Meeker's numbers continue to be as evidently fraudulent as ever. Some people just fail upwards. Anyone believing such information and using it to buy something is the fool who fully deserves to be parted from their money.
Check the sources, they're mostly investment bank and accountancy consultancy sales documents. They aren't audited and apparently there are no adverse consequences for lying like a rug in such things,
Can you cite an example of her sharing fraudulent numbers?
Following the dotcom bomb, the press went looking for heads & Mary Meeker was certainly amongst the ones they sought, but to my knowledge there wasn't an evidence of wrong doing, nor has she been found to have shared bad data?
> Check the sources, they're mostly investment bank and accountancy consultancy sales documents.
While true, these are usually the only estimates that exist. Maybe once every ten years Pew or someone will do a study, but not often. Even though I don't put much faith in these numbers, it's at least nice to be able to read through the original decks and see what the claims are.
That's almost 20% of a waking day. Staggering. I wonder if it actually replaced anything or if it's predominantly multitasking, like watching tv became tv + phone, or people listening to Spotify/Pandora/podcasts instead of the radio.