I last wrote about what companies could do to make large-screen Mobile Internet Devices (regardless of producer or actual name) more attractive to consumers. To spare you having to read the epic piece, in summary my analysis is that everything comes down to the out-of-the-box experience. Average users do not want to configure or code– at the most they want to install and go, with a ready path to any available installations.
When I say “large screen” note that I’m thinking 3 to maybe 6 inches diagonal. Any less and it might as well be an MP3 player, any more and it might as well be a netbook or even touchscreen notebook.
I am constantly seeing a demand for such devices, particularly with uses such as ebook readers, portable internet, GPS, et al. There are typically no complaints about the device size while it’s in use– the gripes come when transport between uses is the issue.
What hit home for me very recently, though, was that the MID transport issue is a problem for only one demographic:
Men.
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