---
title: "How Users Shape the Mobile Ecosystem"
description: "John B. Horrigan discusses how users shape the mobile ecosystem by comparing adoption of the mobile net to adoption of the desktop internet of the 1990s and by focusing on the \"motivated by mobility\" groups from the Project's The Mobile Difference..."
date: "2009-04-23"
authors:
  - name: "John B. Horrigan"
    job_title: "Former Senior Researcher"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/john-b-horrigan/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2009/04/23/how-users-shape-the-mobile-ecosystem/"
categories:
  - "Emerging Technology"
  - "Mobile"
  - "Technology Adoption"
tags:
  - "New Media Ecology"
  - "Technology User Types"
---

# How Users Shape the Mobile Ecosystem

John B. Horrigan discusses how users shape the mobile ecosystem by comparing adoption of the mobile net to adoption of the desktop internet of the 1990s and by focusing on the "motivated by mobility" groups from the Project's [The Mobile Difference ](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2009/5-The-Mobile-Difference--Typology.aspx)report.

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/how-users-shape-the-mobile-ecosystem