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Originally Posted by MeatPounder
So I guess it is true that an advertiser that TARGETS iphone browsing habits would see a huge majority of iphone hits 
Hell, iphones are not that huge a majority of web enabled phones that ATT sells....lol |
True, that.
I am just thinking about the future of porn delivery and how to plan for it. And I am coming at it from a demographical standpoint of a huge consumer of online porn, the business traveler.
I was a road warrior on and off over the last twenty years and have spent plenty of time on project ranging from a day to six months at a time away from home.
The Business Traveler falls into three specific niches in my experience:
1. The Newbie - Will blow all the extra money he is making from being on the road at the bar, strip club and escort services. He doesn't travel enough to consume enough porn on the road to be targeted.
2. The Regularly Travelling Joe - Spends enough time on the road that he is smart enough to avoid the strip clubs and to drink at a regular bar. He is likely to have a small to medium size porn stash on his laptop. If his laptop is not closely monitored, he is likely a regular cruiser of Link Lists, TGPs, etc and probably has a paysite membership or belongs to a pay-per-play type adult site.
3. The Road Warrior - Spends the majority of his days on the road. Has survived the Newbie and Regular Joe phases and spends his off time in his hotel watching TV, playing video games and surfing porn. This person will not only have a medium to large sized porn stash, he will likely own at at least two paysite memberships. Some guys spend hundreds a month to keep themselves jerking off and sane while living in an endless procession of hotel rooms. That travelling porn stash/net link is more a piece of home to them then the hotel towels.
The Joe and Warrior have three problems:
1. Where to stash the porn I already have?
2. How to access more porn when on the road?
3. How do I keep my taste in (
fill in embarrassing fetish) private?
Stashing in the company laptop is risky. Stashing to a private hard drive works, but most guys are too lazy or technical inept to bother. In the end, the company IT guys are gonna know if the guy likes pantyhosed trannys if he uses the company machine.
Accessing more porn sounds easy, with every hotel offering 'free high speed internet'. Well...TANSTAAFL.
If you read through their "Free Internet" TOS, you discover that most hotels that offer this service reserve the right to any information gathered while you surf.
Now, I am not paranoid about 'The Man' watching me, but I have spent plenty of time fighting proxy wars with hotel "free internet" crashing php applications because they cached and then rebroadcasted each page I surfed. One hotel was so bad that it would not let me directly enter a URL address. I had to enter it on a continuously present browser frame (annoying) that would then decide if I could visit the site (crazy annoying).
This "Free High Speed Internet" is also notoriously slow and prone to crashed video streams on Friday and Saturday nights when all the lonely, over-the-weekend Traveling Joes and Road Warriors are consuming porn to feel better.
A fast, standardized, mobile platform that both serves pics and videos (the Access part of the need) and has a huge storage capability (solving the Stash part of the need) that the IT group can never touch because it's your personal phone (solving the Privacy part of the need) might just become a porn delivering piece of technology that could rival a laptop.
Or not.
The system of choice among the longtime, successful Road Warriors I know is a personal laptop and a wireless-anywhere card. An expensive option and few people like flying with two laptops. Gaint Headache.
Will that system reign for the next five to ten years or will the mobile platforms evolve into the porn delivery portal of choice?
Porn changes. Yesterday's Titans are todays object lessons. The richest pornographer ten years from now might not care about Google SERPS and Credit Card processing.
Wow...I have run on here for a while. But identifying an unmet porn need and exploiting it is what porn capitalism is all about, isnt it?