<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Ryan Rawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryanobjc@gmail.com">ryanobjc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
But you find people who still seem to think this is very normal and<br>
things will just "slowly" get better. Look at the smartphone space,<br>
in 3 years we have gone from 'texting' to 'i want apps and a rich<br>
web/multimedia experience in my pocket now damnit'. June 2007 - July<br>
2010, the introduction of the iPhone (i stood in that line) to the<br>
iPhone 4 and the plethora of Android devices.<br>
<br>
What will happen in the next 3 years?<br>
</blockquote><br>To be accurate, SMS was first commercially released in the early 90s - about the same<br>time as the Web became available for public use. While adoption was much slower than<br>the Web and than smartphones, I'd call that transition more like 10-15 years to reach the<br>
same level of public use.<br><br>That's still a lot faster than most people appear to think change is happening, though.<br></div><div style="visibility: hidden; display: inline;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div><style type="text/css">#avg_ls_inline_popup { position:absolute; z-index:9999; padding: 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 13px;}</style>