Source: http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=205If you have ever taken any sort of marketing class you have seen this chart. Each group is distinguished by their entry into the market with the the innovators being the earliest and laggards being last.
JP and I are definitely NOT innovators when it comes to cell phones and their services. I would consider us Late Majority (probably Late Late Majority if that was a category). Now let's see why we get this classification.
Meet JP's phone:
This is the SGH-t809. This phone first came on the market in 2005. In 2008, JP's friend got a new phone and gave JP this phone. If you want one just like it, you can find one for $17 on Google Shop. (at least as of now... you better hurry before someone snatches it up!)Meet my phone:
This is the LG CU720. This first came on the market in 2007. I got this phone in 2009. However, the only reason I got this phone was because my Razr completely died. If it hadn't died, I probably would still have it.Now on to service features, well really texting...
First we must note that JP and I are both still on our parent's plan. It is just a lot cheaper for us right now to do this, and it is preventing us from having to decide which service to choose. My family has AT&T and his family has T-Mobile. Makes it difficult to decide which service to use because one of us will be giving up our free mobile-2-mobile minutes with our family.
Let's tell JP's story first: JP's family never had texting so everytime they sent or received a text it was 20 cents. That got very expensive so JP's parents decided to just block texting all together.
Now my story: All through college, I never had texting. I asked for it, but my Dad never put it on the plan. So, I just kept my texts to few and far between. When my sister went to college, we still didn't have textinig. So, her first month of college, instead of limiting texts, she sent zillions of texts running up a pretty high bill. As a result, my Dad added a small texting plan. She got 1500 texts, I got 200.
So in the world of smartphones, JP and I were completely limited or somewhat limited on texting.
Well... Hello Unlimited Text World... we are here!
JP's story: JP kept asking his parents for unlimited text, and his brothers started too. For Christmas, they got Unlimited texting!
My story: Because my sister isn't much of a talk-on-the-phone kind of person, my mom started texting her. She didn't have a text plan so each text was paid for individually. My Mom initially didn't text much but then it started to grow. So, it ended up being a better deal for my Dad to purchase the Unlimited texting plan.
Now why do we not get the laggards classification? There will always be people out there like my grandmother who have no desire to text!
So now, please feel free to text JP or me anytime! Now, when will we enter the smartphone world? Let's get JP a CPA and a job first! :)
