May 4, 2004
Study: Interest in picture messaging and moblogging is down
This is disturbing... Eric Lin for TheFeature.com reports that Zelos Group, in a wireless services survey, has discovered that "interest in picture messaging and moblogging is down 5-8% from last year.".
"Thanks to buzz from early sites like Hiptop Nation and Text America, interest in moblogging last year was around 20%, while about 18% of those surveyed were interested in picture messaging. In this year's survey interest in MMS dropped to 13% and moblogging is down to 12%.
[...] Without interoperability agreements, users can't reliably send pictures to their friends and family, who are often on other networks. Many also balk at the pricing structure on some networks. Although the price of picture messages seems to be dropping, they hold no value at all if they don't reach their destination- many don't. Combine the difficulty of setting up moblogs with the difficulties of picture messaging, and it's no wonder interest in moblogging experienced an even greater drop.
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