{"id":5182,"date":"2013-06-06T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2013-06-06T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T11:52:10","slug":"a-useful-look-at-mobile-market-share-assertions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5182","title":{"rendered":"A Useful look at Mobile Market Share Assertions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techpinions.com\/googles-android-activations-are-a-lot-less-cash-cow-and-a-lot-more-bull\/17183\">John Kirk<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a phone network, the value is in the phone owner.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 In a mobile computing network, the value is in the app, not the mobile phone owner.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 In a phone network, the more phone owners there are \u2013 the more people you could call and be called by \u2013 the more powerful the network effect and the more valuable the phone network becomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 In a mobile computing network, the more developers there are \u2013 the more apps available for consumption \u2013 the more powerful the network effect and the more valuable the computing network becomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 In a phone network, there is no difference between a phone owner and a phone user \u2013 they are one and the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 In a mobile computing network, there is a HUGE difference between the mobile phone owner and the mobile user.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Learn more about Virtual Properties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vp.io\/apps.html\">5th generation native iPhone, iPad and Android apps, here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kirk: In a phone network, the value is in the phone owner. \u2013 In a mobile computing network, the value is in the app, not the mobile phone owner. \u2013 In a phone network, the more phone owners there are \u2013 the more people you could call and be called by \u2013 the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}