The difference between iPhone and Facebook app users

1 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 1 Google+ 0 LinkedIn 0 1 Flares ×

Andrew asked this question on his blog that I think about quite often.


link to photo

Let’s compare some differences between app users:

facebook app user iPhone app user
Users Annual salary -$5 $75,000
Amount spent to use service $0 $200-400
Amount spent monthly $0 $70

Which kind of user do you want?

There are 12 comments. There will be one more after you add yours, though.

Other posts you'll love:

  1. Grouporation: LinkedIn on Facebook
  2. Lifehack: Reduce your $290 iPhone Bill
  3. Learning Viral: What to do when you are NOT Viral
  4. Noah's A+ Theory: How to get Users more Involved
  5. Why are users so dumb? Yelp.com Case Study

Want More? Get new articles via email:

people read Okdork everyday!

12 Responses to “The difference between iPhone and Facebook app users”

  • Ted Rheingold
    September 8th, 2008
    11:12 pm

    Dood, that’s funny … because it’s true.

    Perhaps the guy with his hat out in the picture should sign up for a survey service so people could donate to him with the proceeds they get for spending 5 minutes filling sensitive personal data that can be resold to lead-gen and direct marketing associations?

    I tumbled it.

  • Noah Kagan
    September 9th, 2008
    9:48 pm

    sometimes i am amazed that ted rheingold, ceo of dogster, comments on my blog. is that weird?

  • Noah Kagan
    September 9th, 2008
    9:48 pm

    okay maybe flattered is a better word:)

  • Ted Rheingold
    September 9th, 2008
    10:06 pm

    well stop be so fucking funny, okay, and then I’ll back off.

    geez, now let me go see if you’ve written a new entry.

  • Dave Liu
    September 10th, 2008
    6:42 pm

    Hi Noah, I ran into Justin Lee in San Francisco and I thought of you and your love for burritos. Been a year or so since we met up?

    Glad to pick up your blog where I left off…. : )

  • Noah Kagan
    September 10th, 2008
    7:23 pm

    dave,

    nice to hear from you. i am now in austin, aka burrito heaven. had 1 for dinner tonight. come back soon.

  • Dave Liu
    September 10th, 2008
    7:35 pm

    lol… that is awesome. i spend a lot of time in asia now. i actually started to miss burritos while i was there. they have everything but…

  • Steven Kovar
    September 10th, 2008
    11:28 pm

    Haha, it’s comforting to know my current project is largely based on the iPhone, given little tidbits like this. :P

    Then again, I’m working on a different one which is meant for Facebook apps. Let’s see which one turns out for the better. ;]

  • Noah Kagan
    September 10th, 2008
    11:30 pm

    steven,

    how do you determine better? more profit?

  • jacob morgan
    September 11th, 2008
    12:13 am

    oh this is a no brainer, of course the facebook user :)

    love dogster, big soft spot for dogs!

    hope you’re enjoying austin.

    J

  • Noah Kagan
    September 11th, 2008
    12:13 am

    woof!

  • Steven Kovar
    September 11th, 2008
    12:54 am

    Profit is surely the best measuring stick to determine “betterness” but the focuses of the two are different, though I’d like to find a better metric; something like ‘awesomeness’ or maybe ‘really awesomeness’. I just need to find a way to make that quantifiable. :o

    One app is designed to have a greater number of users, and the other is designed to have more ‘serious’ members, I suppose you could say. Both markets are “hot” right now, so there’s no telling which will get picked up and ran with the most.

    That said, my Facebook app will be monetized via the people who want to make contact with its users rather than the users themselves. Both are service-based.

Say something witty