So they are somehow measuring how much time you spend doing each activity? Sounds
suspect.
What exactly are these percentages measuring?
r e n
Jani PATOKALLIO wrote:
> Renfield Kuroda wrote:
> > Hubert Hung-Hsien Chang wrote:
> > > And the usage of the i-mode phone was 34% voice, 42% email and 24%
> > > internet (from InfoCom research, 2000 mentioned in the report by Devine
> > > and Holmqvist) I wonder if it has do with how it is arranged.
> > > ( email and internet percentage vs its menu locaiton.) Of course,
> > > people do like to keep in touch.
> >
> > 34% voice? I'm not sure what that means, but it sounds very wrong. Voice is
> > far and away the most common use for i-mode phones.
>
> Not necessarily if they're measuring time spent on each activity.
> I, for one, tend to keep my phone calls short and to the point,
> because I know I have to pay for them by the second, but spend
> much more time composing email, which doesn't cost me a yen.
> (Although this definitely has some correlation to my Japanese ability
> or lack thereof... =))
>
> Cheers,
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> ヤニ・パトカリオ / jani@sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp / 090 7722 3557
> 東京大学、工学系研究科、機械情報工学科、算法設計研究室
>
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