The Mobile Internet Is the Internet (qz.com)

A reader shares a Quartz report: Think back to the mobile phone you had in 2010. It could access the internet, but it wasn't such a great experience. On average, people only spent 20% of their time online on their phones back then, according to Zenith, a media agency. Today, by contrast, we spend around 70% of our time on the internet on phones, based on estimates and forecasts for more than 50 countries covering two-thirds of the world's population. By 2019, Zenith says this will rise to close to 80%. What used to be called "mobile internet" is now just the internet.

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[Frosty Piss]

The Mobile Internet Is the Internet

If you are a consumer of crap, someone who lives their life of Facebook, than yes, your mobile phone is the Internet, the way you validate your sad little life.

Other people do other things "on the Internet" that do not revolve around Social Media.

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[apoc.famine]

Well, you are definitely old fashioned and out of touch. :)

I did reconsider my priorities in life, and that's what lead to the smartphone. I have a 30 minute public transport commute each way to work. My priority was not being at work longer than I had to be, which lead me to consider making functional use of my commute. So now I zip off a half-dozen emails to and from work, and stay in the office an hour less each day.

I can also pop off early to the pub and have a beer, because I'm 5 seconds from being able to start responding to any emergency. Sure, being retired and not having to do that would be nice, but until then, it's incredible that I can have the bulk of the internet in my pocket running on a machine that's faster than a lot of the computers I built in my life.

Not having to spend a full workday on a floor filled with gray cubicles under fluorescent lights is definitely a good reason to get a smartphone in my opinion. YMMV, but as a large portion of my job is being an on-demand SME, doing that on a smartphone with a beer in my hand is only marginally harder than sitting at my computer. The only real problem is swype not knowing a lot of the technological jargon and abbreviations I have to use.