Research from Scarborough Research shows that early adopters are different from other consumers. "Digital savvy" consumers use more technology and have more money, than the typical mass market consumer.
Cable operators never make the mistake of getting hung up worrying about early adopters. Everything they do is tuned for the average consumer, the sort of "other side of the chasm" customer technologists have to learn to deal with to achieve real mass market success.
It is important to note what sorts of experiences are getting traction, of course. It's just a different matter to tailor those experiences for the great mass of consumers who will not put up with much inconvenience when using new applications and services.
Lots of entrepreneurs fail when they don't clearly understand the differences between the bleeding edge early adopters and the real mass market.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Digital Savvy Dangers
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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