Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Black Friday to Be Impacted by Smart Phones

Smart phones are used for almost everything today from calendar updates, time keeping, and even internet shopping. The ease of the smart phone makes getting a package sent to your door as simple as the click of a button, but anywhere in the world you want to click it. This make the holidays especially convenient for shoppers, and it is predicted this year that smart phones will have a huge impact on black Friday.

With almost half of the U.S. having access to some type of mobile internet, the new holiday, cyber Monday was born, and now serves as an alternative to the black Friday lines and craze for the holidays. Many apps for various smart phones will adapt for the holidays, in order to bring the ease of shopping for the holidays to the smart phones, instead of just the computers.

Most prominent apps, such as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and many other shopping apps will not only provide the same cyber Monday and black Friday deals to the public as they normally do, but they will allow for special deals to be given to customers simply for purchasing on the app itself.

Although it seems that cyber shopping has dominated the market nowadays, there are still people out there who prefer to go looking in the stores and do not have the internet access available to everyone else for online shopping. There are more discounts available online, but they can only be reached by those that have access to the intent. For those that do have access, cyber Monday will be a good shopping day for them.

This special treatment to the app software will lead many more people to download, surf and buy from the apps as opposed to the internet or in store, giving these companies a much wider access to customers. The simplicity of the shopping along with the lack of frustration will make everything much easier for the people on the holidays.

Smart phones are effecting shopping in other ways, by allowing customers to compare prices more quickly than they ever were able to before. These customers are influenced by the low prices that they find with internet shopping as opposed to in store prices, and they will buy different items because of it.

These trends will continue to develop as more people buy smartphones and other devices. For those with smartphones, the products on the phones themselves, namely apps, music, movies, books and other downloads that can be used on the devices will be discounted because of cyber Monday.

Some of the apps that have been reported in the past to be discounted are Tom Tom USA, Age of Zombies, Cohabit, Tiny Cars, Sea Stars, Monster Island and many other apps. Cyber Monday will be good news for the companies of the app developers and the customers who own the smart phones themselves, so it turns out being a win-win for everyone.

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