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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (48761)	11/19/2012 11:48:06 PM
From: Johnny Canuck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70197

I am the same way. Except for email I only surf the web when I have access to a free wifi location. Those locations are very plentiful in Canada, but from my travels in the US they are only starting to catch on there now. Part of the issue is that the quality of applications in the Android market is not as strictly controlled as in the Apple market. In one way it allows innovation to happen quicker, but that flip side is that the quality of applications is a bit questionable at times. Correspondingly Apple controls which applications make it to their market too closely. We have all seen the complaints that developers have put forward in regards to the restriction that Apple has arbitrarily imposed. Google maps comes to mind. I saw a study recently that most Smartphone users only use about 4 to 5 applications consistently. Most application last about 30 to 60 days on a user phone in terms of significant usage. It is important to remember applications are more about generating fads as opposed to generating utility right now. Fads equal eye balls which may lead to ad revenues, but those revenues are flitting. Even though Facebook paid $1 billion in stock for Instagram, Instagram still has not revenue model. It is all free and it cost Intragram to keep the servers running. There is talk about re-selling the images uploaded as stock photos, but how many people are going to use the service know that they lose control of their rights to the image and at the same time are generating revenue for Instagram and not getting anything back themselves. Even Flickr shares the revenue with the owner of the image. I saw a lot of press about Summly this morning, but again they don't have a specific revenue model only an interesting idea. Digg comes to mind as a start up with a great idea that never was able to devise a profit model and is not gone. They has lots of hype and traffic initially.