Need to check a sports score, go on your phone. Looking for a nearby restaurant idea, go on your phone. Catching up on Facebook, go on your phone. And in my case, blocked from reading personal emails at work, go on your phone. The cell phone is the connection to media and information, wherever and whenever. Convenient, compact, and always with you.
"And this rabid consumption only stands to intensify as second-generation devices become more ubiquitous. According to the study, 24 percent of people now own a web-enabled smartphone, while cellphone ownership has fallen from 81 percent to 65 percent since 2009." Also worth noting, consumption of media is not a zero sum game; that is, it is not simply being moved from one device to another. We are consuming more because it has become effortless to interact wherever we are. And the variety of content online continues to grow.
"Indeed, the barriers between traditional TV, DVR, and video-on-demand are rapidly vanishing. Watching television live still commands 78 percent of the total hours viewed, but almost a quarter of TV viewing today occurs through a mixture of DVR, VOD, and online video -- an increase of 49 percent year-to-year." This is good news for content creators developing valuable content for TV. That content can now being viewed live on TV, on DVR, through on demand, online, and on DVD.
And smartphones are being made better to support our media requirements. The iPhone from Apple took them a quantum leap forward with it's touch pad concept and now other device makers have followed with their own versions. Still, our next hump to overcome remains the power source. Longer battery life will only lead to even more media consumption.
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