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The Old Fashioned Way
have been dealing with lots of NORMAL (READ not IT) folk lately and it always interesting for me to understand if they use the Internet and how they use it. I just am searching for bids for installation of ACs in my new house in which I asked the gentleman to email me the quote. The gentleman quickly put his assistant on the phone to take my email and promised to send it promptly. The email arrived but with no attachment – so I called the AC vendor back. He said – Maam – I think that it will be simpler for me to just get it sent across to you. What is your address – it will be there in an hour or two. So that was that – and my quote arrived on paper a couple of hours later.
I have also been watching kids and their usage of the net. There is definitely a lot of entertainment content being used – ie. Downloading songs, playing games online, email, using Facebook and Orkut and ofcourse going to Youtube. Most of the kids in our house use the Internet every other day. And for about 30 minutes or so. Even in the house where I am staying, even though we have wireless lan, we do not keep it on all the time. We turn it on when we want to access the NET. It is not part of the daily obsession to wake-up and check emails!
I can already see a lot of iPhones in Delhi although it has just been released a couple of months ago. I was at the Intercontinental Hotel speaking with the shift manager and asked him a question. He quickly whisked out his iphone to get me the answer. This seems to be quite the norm – with people using the mobile more frequently to access the Internet and search for quick information.
I was also impressed when interviewing for my assistant that most of them use the Internet regularly from home. Couple of them had even searched for company information to prepare for the Internet.
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