japan.internet.com recently reported on the highlights of a survey from goo Research looking at cloud services.
Demographics
Beween the 22nd and 25th of January 2013 1,094 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internert-based questionnaire. 53.3% of the sample were male, 13.2% in their teens, 15.6% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 17.6% in their forties, 14.6% in their fifties, and 17.6% aged sixty or older.
I think this survey defines “cloud service” as “any service you have used on your local computer but now (also) use on the internet”, which is not my understanding. Cloud services to me imply a dynamic use model, so for storage, instead of signing up to a 50 Gb for $5 plan as is the usual model, instead you pay 10 cents per Gb uploaded and 5 cents per Gb downloaded. Mind you, now I think about it, from the service provider’s point of view they are providing a cloud service; I know that some online storage providers with flat-rate models actually use Amazon’s pay-per-use system at the back-end, and even something as boring as a shopping site may be located in a cloud service to cope with the ebb and flow in demand. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 7th and 8th of December 2012 1,059 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 14.4% in their twenties, 24.9% in their thirties, 28.8% in their forties, 11.5% in their fifties, and 9.6% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. This question was for the women only.
Note that there are two kinds of chocolates; obligatory chocolates that have to be handed out to every male in one’s workplace or class that have no romantic significance, and true love chocolates, the meaning of which should be obvious!
I don’t think I’d be really too impressed with any of the below, myself, except of course the no beating about the bush of number four! Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on an interesting survey from Trend Micro into Android smartphone usage. Actually, no survey title was given in the article, but that is probably close enough to the theme.
Demographics
Towards the end of 2012 316 people between the ages of 18 and 59 who had changed from a feature phone to Android in 2012 completed a web-based questionnaire, although it is not clear how they were selected or if the survey was private or not.
Note that Galapagos in the title comes from a frequently-used term for Japanese feature phone which have evolved in isolation to devices uniquely suited for their environment, but unable to establish a foothold anywhere else in the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 7th and 8th of December 2012 1,059 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 14.4% in their twenties, 24.9% in their thirties, 28.8% in their forties, 11.5% in their fifties, and 9.6% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
Here’s a guy enjoying number 2, both 6s, and perhaps even the first 9.
Over the 11th and 12th of January 2013 800 married men and women (400 of each sex, but it is not clear if they are 400 couples) who both talk with each other on LINE completed a private internet-based questionnaire. They were aged between 20 and 49 years old, but no further demographics were provided.
Note that “talk” in the questions below covers both text and voice chat. In Q2, I don’t know if the imbalance in the sexes indicates that it was not couples married to each other who completed the survey, or if women don’t reply sometimes, or people are poor at estimating, or some combination of these or other factors. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com reported on a recent survey by Neo Marketing into the true feelings (honne) of SNS users and found rather a lot getting a bit tired of the social grind.
Demographics
As with most non-goo Research surveys, the demographic information was lacking; 1,000 SNS users of both sexes between the ages of 20 and 49 completed a (presumably private) internet-based questionnaire at some unspecified date.
I keep my SNS usage to a minimum; indeed, my wife uses my Facebook account more than me, every day checking up on a few people to see what they are up to, whereas my usage is 99% automated reposts of this blog. I am more active on Google Plus, but as I find nothing wrong with just ignoring people (sorry, that’s just my character!) it never gets too burdensome.
Regarding Q3 and the dissatisfaction of getting requests from unknown people, I believe that when you sign up with Facebook and enter where you live, Facebook prompts you with a list of people nearby, so I occasionally get requests from Facebook newbies who live in the same town and probably think it would be cool to have a foreign friend. I, of course, just ignore them.
The article also had a quote from the head of a psychiartric clinic in Tokyo, saying that they are seeing a few patients having stress from work through SNS, which they have termed “social harrassment”. The doctor recommended taking a break from SNS now and again, and suggested avoiding it just before bedtime and/or Sundays. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 7th and 8th of December 2012 1,059 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 14.4% in their twenties, 24.9% in their thirties, 28.8% in their forties, 11.5% in their fifties, and 9.6% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
I think most of the answers apply to people at the girlfriend/boyfriend stage, not married couples. I hope I don’t do any of the male acts, although numbers 14 and 18 hit a bit close to home! On the other hand, … my wife might be reading! Read the rest of this entry »
MM Research Institute recently published a survey conducted in conjunction with goo Research, their fifth regular survey into consumer opinions on environmental measures, a survey that always leaves me scratching my head at the results.
Demographics
Over the 7th and 8th of January 2013 1,159 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.3% of the sample were male, 19.2% between 18 and 29 years old, 19.3% in their thirties, 20.5% in their forties, 20.4% in their fifties, and 20.6% aged sixty or older.
The nuclear-related questions are interesting, especially the separation of it from environmental issues; I have no idea why they would do that, but I would have liked to have seen a lot more detail on people’s views.
Here’s my favourite corporate advert promoting environmental stuff:
japan.internet.com recently reported on one aspect of a survey by goo Research into manga (comics) that found that about one in three paper readers were also consumers on electronic devices.
Demographics
Between the 8th and 10th of January 2013 1,075 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.6% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 21.9% in their thirties, 15.8% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 12.2% aged sixty or older.
Instead of a comic on a mobile phone, let’s have a mobile phone in a comic:
I’ve never read a manga electronically in any form, but coincidentally today at lunchtime I noticed a colleage reading one on a tablet computer. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on the results of a survey by goo Research into smartphone recharging.
Demographics
Between the 7th and 10th of January 2013 1,082 members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 22.0% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.9% in their fifties, and 11.8% aged sixty or older.
Not surprisingly, I too am disappointed in my phone’s battery life. Although I don’t use it much, the battery has a bad habit of leaking power – or more likely, Android has a bad habit of eating the battery when I least expect it. On the other hand, as I type this I wonder if the fact that Android can display a usage percentage makes people feel the battery being used up faster versus older phone where there was just a three segment display? That would be an interesting psychological survey! Read the rest of this entry »
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