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Originally Posted by Edwin Sorry to contradict you again, but I don't see anything locally that would back that expectation. Companies aren't hanging around waiting for Vista, and computers are dirt cheap already and getting cheaper by the day (like anywhere else I guess) and sales haven't exactly been slow over the last few years.
Note that the big growth is past on the proliferation front at least, with 82.8% of all households having Internet access (that includes web-enabled mobile phones) and there was a growth in the broadband market of over 10 million subscribers in 12 months. http://www.impressholdings.com/release/2005/025/
Where you're likely to still see growth is in online advertising rather than specifically internet use i.e. many many more yen chasing the same number of people... |
Yes, it would seem that internet access figures both broadband and mobile from Far East are very impressive indeed. I think this will be particulary interesting in China, where the retail infrasture is being built from almost scratch. It seems likely that there will be a much bigger emphasis on online shopping than was the case in the early development of the internet in the west.
Well things are obviously not as gloomy as we have been led to believe. It would, however, seem from what you are saying that the numbers stuck on Windows 98 and therefore not able to benefit from the arrival IE 7.0 will be much smaller than previously indicated.
Best Regards
Dave Wrixon