{"id":650,"date":"2008-08-02T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T15:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2008-08-02T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T15:56:02","slug":"three-percent-of-people-in-europe-use-maps-on-their-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/three-percent-of-people-in-europe-use-maps-on-their-mobile-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Three percent of people in Europe use maps on their mobile phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><blockquote><p>According to the report, the majority of users &#8212; 73% in the United States and 57% in Europe &#8212; accessed mobile maps via the handset&#8217;s browser. Less than a third of customers in these markets used a downloaded application.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/cmp\/20080729\/tc_cmp\/209602162\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a town like Lausanne it would make sense to use google maps paired with the phone&#8217;s gps because there&#8217;s municipal wifi you don&#8217;t need to agree to for use. As a result it&#8217;d be much faster simply to load the appplication. <\/p>\n<p>With time and as dat costs go down the trend of using Nokia&#8217;s in built maps will evolve&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>According to the report, the majority of users &#8212; 73% in the United States and 57% in Europe &#8212; accessed mobile maps via the handset&#8217;s browser. Less than a third of customers in these markets used a downloaded application. Source In a town like Lausanne it would make sense to use google maps paired with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[197,9],"tags":[204,309,308],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n95","category-tech-related","tag-gps","tag-map","tag-mobile-phone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}