If 90% lurk, 9% comment/engage and 1% create, does that mean that only 1% of ...

Julian Bond - 2013-02-18 18:43:37+0000 - Updated: 2013-02-18 18:45:22+0000

If 90% lurk, 9% comment/engage and 1% create, does that mean that only 1% of people need a full function PC with a full function keyboard and mouse, the 9% can get by with the cut down apps on tablets with an occasional keyboard or a chromebook, and the 90% only need a smart phone and an onscreen keyboard.

Except: http://gigaom.com/2012/05/06/bbc-1-percent-rule/

AmyBeth Inverness - 2013-02-18 18:45:45+0000

Very possibly. Although I have also heard of writers with bluetooth keyboards getting by with that keyboard and a smartphone when they're away at an event.

Julian Bond - 2013-02-18 18:49:08+0000

And I've watched people assemble a laptop from bits in their bag at the start of meetings. iPad+Stand+Keyboard+PSU+Mouse. Mostly I'm questioning the 2013 received wisdom that the desktop is dying and the future is mobile. Really, for everybody, all the time?

Simon Carswell - 2013-02-18 19:52:25+0000

I guess there's portability, otoh, and data entry interfaces, oto. The two seem to be converging