the smartphone wars

Tablets: the perfect shopping device

Ryan Kim writes:

If it is not apparent to retailers already, the world is turning mobile. If it is actual sales they are after, they need to think about how they are serving tablet users. Smartphones are still very important and often serve as a research tool, helping gather data that can be used for a later purchase. But increasingly, consumers are showing that they love shopping on a tablet. This is something Steve Jobs understood really well more than decade ago when he told a Wired reporter in 1997 that the benefit of the web was going to be realized by people interested in selling things.

“It’s more than publishing. It’s commerce. People are going to stop going to a lot of stores. And they’re going to buy stuff over the Web!” he said.

That vision has crystallized with the iPad. 

My readers, of course, already knew this. 

From such posts as...

this one

this one

this one

this one

this one

...and about 30-40 more. 

I'm sure it was just an oversight.