I’ve been going through old news and have come up with some examples of missed predictions.
According to Yankee Group research, active users of mobile interactive, entertainment and community applications, which include premium chat, flirting and dating services, are forecasted to grow from 960,000 in 2003 to 16.3 million in 2008, for a cumulative annual growth rate of 76.3 percent.
Via Sprint Offers Mobile Dating Services. They say the numbers include dating features, but still.
With fewer than 6 million users in the United States, mobile dating is small compared with the estimated 40 million users of traditional computer- based online dating services.”
Via Textually.org. Six million mobile daters in the US circa 2005? Get out.
Subscription revenue for the mobile dating services are expected to rise from $31.4 million this year to $215 million by 2009.
Via SFGate. Get cracking on those mobile apps.
