Kantar Worldpanel Stats say British and Europeans love Apple iPhone 6 - China growing as Consumer Intelligence Report confirms iPhone 6 Plus unnecessary

“Apple has experienced a huge jump in sales share across almost all major markets thanks to the launch of the iPhone 6. In major European economies, the US and Australia, Apple’s share of sales has risen. This success is particularly evident in Great Britain where Apple now has its highest ever share of sales with 39.5%. Most of these sales were driven by loyal Apple users. Some 86% of British buyers upgraded from an older iPhone model, only 5% switched across from Samsung.”

Strategic insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, Dominic Sunnebo on Apple iPhone sales surge in Europe

The Apple iPhone 6 has been a sort of lucky talisman for Apple, as the Fourth Quarter of 2014 is shaping up to be their best based on the stats from Analyst Kantar WorldPanel in the article “iPhone 6 sales to drive Apple to record quarter: report”, published December 3, 2014 13:40 GMT (05:40 PST) by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet. 

This as it’s sparking a massive rally on Apple iPhones in general, especially in Europe, according to Analyst Kantar WorldPanel in the article “iPhone 6, 6 Plus trigger spike in Apple sales worldwide”, published December 4, 2014 6:53 AM PST, by Lance Whitney, CNET News.

The stats, as per their report entitled “Huge iPhone 6 sales put Apple on course for record quarter”, published 03/12/2014, Kantar WorldPanel, paints a picture of a Europe that's in love with the Apple iPhone 6 even more than Americans!

Kantar World Panel European Stats – Apple hot in Britain,  gaining ground in the Big 5

First I’ll throw up their graphical explanation.

The Big five (5) markets in the European Union are as follows:

1.      Britain

2.      Germany

3.      France

4.      Italy

5.      Spain

First, a breakdown of percentage sales across the EU by iOS for the three (3) months to October 2014:

1.      69.4% for Google Android a fall of 2.5 percentage points over a similar period in 2013

2.      20.7% for Apple’s iOS, an increase of 5.7 percentage points over a similar period in 2013

3.      8.7% for Windows phone

These stats are very impressive when viewed in the light of the fact that the Apple iPhone didn’t launch until Friday September 19^th 2014 as I’d reported in my blog article entitled “Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus - No Sapphire Screen but 128GB Storage and NFC-powered Apple Pay in Apple's Biggest iPhone Launch”.

In one specific market, Great Britain the affect the Apple iPhone 6 was even more spectacular during the three (3) months to October 2014:

1.      39.5% for Apple’s iOS, an increase of 10.8 percentage points over a similar period in 2013

2.      34% were 16-24 year olds

3.      64% were males

4.      31% of Apple iPhone 6 sales sold directly through Apple’s retail offer

Typical British, their reason this time around for buying an Apple iPhone 6 was mainly due to the Mobile 4G LTE Internet:

1.      51% brought the Apple iPhone 6 for 4G capability

2.      49% for Screen Size

3.      45% Design

Even more interesting fact about the British buyers proves that this Apple iPhone 6 is also a Google Android Whisperer, wooing many from that OS to Apple’s wonderful Walled Garden experience:

1.      86% of British buyers upgraded from an older iPhone model

2.      5% of British buyers were switching from the Samsung

Like the Apple iPhone 5C in 2013 as described in my blog article entitled “Kantar WorldpanelComTech Stats suggests that the Apple iPhone 5C is a Google Android smartphone whisperer – US$100 cheaper is still a Deal for the 38 year old Crowd”, the Apple iPhone 6 is ALSO a Google Android whisperer.

This trend has continued onwards into 2014, with Apple at the Launch of the Apple iPhone 6 placing the 8GB Apple iPhone 5C on a US$0 contract as noted in my blog article entitled “8GB Apple iPhone 5C on US$0 Contract - Why the iOS 8 upgradable US449 Apple iPhone 5C is a Jamaican Google Android Whisperer”.

Odd stat to note from Kantar WorldPanel Stats; the 4.7" Apple iPhone 6 outsold the bigger 5.5" Apple iPhone 6 by a 4:1 ratio, suggesting that a bigger smartphone wasn't necessary at all.

Chinese market marked for growth - Xiaomi Redmi still dominant as the Price is Right

In China, Apple is slowly making headway thanks to the Apple iPhone 6 for the three (3) months to October 2014:

1.      15.7% for Apple’s iOS, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over a similar period in 2013

Still the Apple iPhone 6 and the Apple iPhone 6 Plus are in third place after launching on Friday October 17^th 2014, with the US$130 Xiaomi RedMi Note that was launched  in March 2014 as noted in my blog article entitled “US$130 5.5” Xiaomi Redmi Note Phablet goes on sale in China on Tuesday March 26th 2014 - Low-cost Unlocked Phablets the next Tablet in China's Year of the Horse” holding the pole position at 29.9% for that period of time.

Apple has their work cut out for them, especially as Xiaomi has a habit of copying Apple's presentation style combined with viral sales of their smartphone. This as evident from the launch of the US$322 Xiaomi Mi4 in August 2014 as explained in my blog article entitled “US$322 Xiaomi Mi4 smartphone – The World is Not Enough as Chinese Small Rice James Bond Copycat copies Apple’s design”.

It'll be awhile before we can report that the Apple iPhone has beaten this Small Rice of a competitor whose prices is as delicious as it value-for-money design.

EU, British love Apple more than America - Europe and China Apple's Growth engines in 2015

In the US of A, where Apple is expected to have home court advantage, the breakdown of percentage sales across the US of A was also impressive for the three (3) months to October 2014:

1.      41.5% for Apple’s iOS, an increase of 0.7 percentage points over a similar period in 2013

Of that percentage sale, the various carriers were in a virtual dead heat to sell the most Apple iPhone 6:

1.      42.2% of Verizon subscribers

2.      41.4% of AT&T subscribers

The Apple iPhone 6 and the Apple iPhone 6 Plus is slightly stronger at whispering to Android users in the US of A:

1.      85% were repeat iOS customers

2.      9% were switching from Android smartphones

Again, like their British cousins, the Apple iPhone 6 outsold the Apple iPhone 6 Plus by a ratio of 3:1, with the 63% of iPhone 6 Plus sales being procured by AT&T. 

 This odd statistic from Kantar WorldPanel is confirmed by stats coming from Consumer Intelligence Report, who also notice this odd ratio; Apple iPhone 6 outselling the Apple iPhone 6 Plus by a ratio of 3:1 as stated in the article “iPhone 6 reportedly outselling the iPhone 6 Plus by 3-to-1 iPhone 6 beats iPhone 6 Plus for sales of new handsets”, published November 16, 2014 By David Nield, Digitaltrends.

Kantar Worldpanel Stats and Consumer Intelligence Report – 5.5” Speed Limit for smartphones

Europe and China are now the new growth engines for the Apple iPhone, with the Apple iPhone 6 propelling Apple to what may possible be a record breaking Fourth Quarter of 2014.

It can also be concluded form the Kantar WorldPanel Stats and Consumer Intelligence Report that concerns about the larger Smartphone being a bit too unwieldy mean that 5.5” and above may really be the upper limit for the size of smartphones.  

Especially as such larger phones necessitate you using a Bluetooth headset or a mini phone, such as the  WiMe's Talkase as noted in my blog article entitled “WiMe's Talkase Kickstarter - Why Bluetooth Physical Button Micro-SIM Phone indicates Smartwatch Calling and Bluetooth Device Trend for Feature Phones”.

Advice to Apple: this should be their first and last smartphone in this range, as the phablet trend isn’t for Apple as the trend is towards cheaper smartphones, not larger ones as predicted in my blog article entitled “IDC and NPD Group record Tablet Decline and Phablet Rise - “White Box” Chinese Tablets and Wearable Computing in First Quarter of 2014 making Tablets obsolete in the Year of the Sheep”.

So in summary, not only is the Apple iPhone more live in Europe and China than it is love in the US of A, it also appears that the Apple iPhone 6 Plus wasn’t necessary after all.

Facebook relaunches Facebook Places – Return of Facebook Places heralds Yelp and TripAdisvor Killer putting Foursquare-Instagram LBS deal in Jeopardy

“Facebook Places is a page that allows you to search for publicly-available info about cities, even if you are not logged in. Results will include publicly shared photos, reviews and posts on Facebook to help you find popular places to visit. Results will be customized for people who are logged in to include posts that they are in the audience for”

Facebook spokesperson explaining to CNET News what Facebook Places is all about

Foursquare isn’t the only company gunning after Yelp’s crowd with their relaunched Foursquare App as explained in my blog article entitled “Foursquare splits into Foursquare and Swarm - Twitter-eqsue Restaurant Recommendations while Tracking Friend's Feeds and Plans as the Real Beat Comes Alive”.

Facebook has now relaunched Facebook Places Page that allows you to search Facebook for Restaurants and Bars and great places to hang out located in Cities all around the world as reported in the article “Facebook’s new Places page treads on Yelp's turf”, published November 13, 2014 7:49 AM PST by Lance Whitney, CNET News.

Apparently it draws on the analytical power of Facebook Open Graph that they rolled out back in 2012 as explained in my Geezam blog article entitled “Facebook to introduce #Hashtags with emoticons, monetizing FB and making Open Graph Search Practical” to determine which places are most popular dependent on the traffic data for the official Business Facebook Pages.

It's really more of a Browser tool than a Search engine, in that case, and it’s quite useful, albeit under populated, listing some of the Major cities around the world but not all of the hidden gems you'd know if you travelled on foot.

When I entered “Kingston” as a search term, it oddly redirected me to “Kingston, Jamaica” instead gave me New Kingston and even suggested Vineyard Town, Trench Town, Rollington Town and Norman Gardens as potential hotspots. Oddly, no Major tourist town are listed, or even Montego Bay, Jamaica’s Second City!

Apparently Facebook Places Page has got a little Grassroots and Street Cred in their search results, making me like it more despite the sparseness of the listing as not every Jamaicans’ Restaurant or Bar has a Facebook Page.

Still, it found most of the Facebook Pages of the places I knew, making it really more of a tool for Tourists and not for Jamaicans who know great places to eat. After all, most Jamaican who eat out don't waste much time taking pictures and making comments on the Social Media pages of these Restaurants as we might not known if one exists, or even bother to search.

Facebook Places Page is just a collection of as many pages that exists of Business in cities around the World based on the location data that has accumulated over the last three (3) years.

That’s is, since their first attempt at beating Foursquare and becoming Yelp back in August 2010 as chronicled in the article “Facebook unveils location-sharing feature 'Places'”, published August 18, 2010 5:03 PM PDT by Josh Lowensohn, CNET News.

History lesson time, dear reader…..

Facebook relaunches Facebook Places – Foursquare-Instagram LBS deal in Jeopardy with Return of Places

Since March 2014 Facebook appeared to be making plans to power the “name this location” button with searches from their recently relaunched Facebook Places Page as stated in the article “Facebook Places Replaces Foursquare in Instagram Test”, published MARCH 27, 2014 02:33PM EST BY DAVID MURPHY, PC Magazine.

Foursquare is still vulnerable, as they only have some 45 million subscribers, despite this being just a test runs noted in CNET's article “Instagram test locates you without Foursquare”, published March 25, 2014 10:59 AM PDT by Jennifer Van Grove, CNET News.

Foursquare Location Database powers Facebook owned Instagram, which has some 200 million subscriber. That's a significant amount of revenue to lose, especially as via the interaction with Facebook's Instagram subscribers, they have a better idea of popular venues that users frequent, valuable data for their newly minted Foursquare App.

Currently, Foursquare database will name the place at which you took the photograph in Instagram. If Facebook switches back to Places, which Foursquare competition killed off back in August 2011 as stated in the article entitled “Foursquare wins major victory with death of Facebook Places”, published August 23, 2011 3:44 PM by Sean Ludwig, VentureBeat then we may be seeing Facebook attempt to clone Foursquare once more.

It may, to some extent, hurt their partnerships with other companies that license Location Data from them, such as Microsoft, who in January signed a US$15 million deal to utilize their Location Databases in their Bing Searches as well as augment their Windows Phone Operating System as reported in the article “Microsoft Invests $15M in Foursquare Location Data”, published  FEBRUARY 4, 2014 03:38PM EST  BY STEPHANIE MLOT, PCMagazine.

Now that Facebook Places Page is alive and well again, it’s only a matter of time before they integrate it into Instagram and then filter it down into their various Apps such as Facebook's Nearby Friends App launched earlier in May 2014 as described in my blog article entitled “Facebook launches Nearby Friends feature - WhatsApp VoIP and Oculus Rift VR Wearable Computing Takes flight as FB look towards the Future in the Year of the Horse”.

Still if you’re a travelling to Jamaica for the first time, it’ll be great if you could visit eateries in Rollington Town or Vineyard Town and not just New Kingston or even Port Royal!

Here’s the link:

Facebook Places Page

IDC Stats say Google Chromebooks with 1 TB Free Google Drive dominates U.S. K-12 School System in 2015

Chromebooks are getting the K-12 Treatment in the US of A as American high Schools and Colleges seem set to become the Chromebook’s largest Customer.

This as analyst IDC (International Data Corporation) has announced that the Google Chromebook had captured 25% of the Education Market with the sale of some 715,500 in the Third Quarter of 2014 as stated in the article “Chromebooks outsell iPads – in education, at least”, published December 1, 2014 By Matt Smith, DigitalTrends.

They've just edged out the apple iPad, which up until now has sold some 702,000 iPads over the same period. For those following this development, this is the same news Google themselves excitedly trumpeted their popularity within the U.S. K-12 School system in an official Blog post entitled “With Chromebooks, students find new ways to learn”, published Monday, November 10, 2014, Google Blog.

Google Chromebooks popular with U.S. K-12 - IDC Stats tell of Rise of the Avengers of Cloud Computing

According to IDC’s Rajani Singh in the article “Google proudly trumpets Chromebook’s domination in American schools”, published November 11, 2014 By Adrian Diaconescu, DigitalTrends, the Google Chromebook is hot in the education sector:

1.      713,000 Google Chromebooks sold in the Third Quarter of 2014

2.      250,000 Google Chromebooks per month from July and September 2014

Google makes the Cloud-based OS, with Laptop makers gladly making the Hardware because of their extremely fast sale time that slowly propelling them towards 1% marketshare of the PC market by 2017 as I’d predicted in my blog article entitled “Chromebooks Sales to Triple by 2017 – How Rapid Sales Heaven for PC Makers means Apple iPad and Microsoft Surface Pro 3 under attack”.

That's an impressive projection for the next three (3) years considering that this market was non-existent three (3) years ago when Google Chromebooks came out in 2011 after the launch of the first Cr-48 Chromebooks back in 2010 as noted in my blog article entitled “Google Chrome OS and Open Source - Star Wars A New Hope”.

They're the most popular Computer in the Laptop section on Amazon and now by the stats offered by Google, the most popular in the K-12 Education System:

1.      50,000 Google Chromebooks sold to the K-12 Districts in Montgomery County, MD

2.      32,000 Google Chromebooks sold to the K-12 Districts in Charlotte-Mecklenberg, NC

3.      26,000 Google Chromebooks sold to the K-12 Districts in Cherry Creek, CO

When broken down by Laptop Manufacturer, the stats make it clear who's really benefitting from U.S. K-12:

1.      240,000 Google Chromebooks sold by Acer

2.      174,000 Google Chromebooks sold by Samsung

3.      127,000 Google Chromebooks sold by HP

Impressive numbers for the Third Quarter of 2014 that are set to get better in the Fourth Quarter of 2014, especially in the week before Christmas 2014!

Especially as this Christmas, they’re offering 1TB Free Google Drive with the purchase of every Google Chromebook starting on Black Friday and onwards to Christmas 2014 as reported in the article “Google gets into the giving spirit, offers 1TB of Drive with every Chromebook”, published November 22, 2014 By Matt Smith, DigitalTrends.

Google Chomebooks are more suited to Education - TIS Project a success in Jamaica albeit Tablets need Keyboard and Mouse

Aside from the price, which is usually in the US$199 to US$399 range, hey also have performance rivaling most high-end laptops as exemplified by the US$299 Acer Chromebook 13 by Acer that's got a Nvidia K1 Processor under the hood as reported in my blog article entitled “US$299 Acer Chromebook 13 by Acer - How Nvidia K1 Processor Under the Hood means that Cloud Gaming on the Horizon by 2017”.

It's also well suited to American K-12 School System, many of which have their Wi-Fi Internet powered by Broadband Internet from AT&T U-Verse and Verizon FiOS and possible even Google Fiber as noted in my blog article entitled “Gig.U Third Annual Report - Google Fiber's American Gigabit Internet Revolution as Jamaica starts Broadband Internet Revolution”.

Touch-screen tablets may be the in-thing with Teenagers (ages 13 to 17) in the K-12 system, but most Tablets are distracting, with users prime to using them for playing games and just plain surfing the internet as noted by parent and write for Forbes Magazine Anthony Wing Kosner in his article “Google Unseats Apple In U.S. Classrooms As Chromebooks Beat iPads”, published 12/01/2014 @ 1:04AM by Anthony Wing Kosner, Forbes.

Even here in Jamaica, we’re had issues with our TIS (Tablet in schools) program that's been rolling out across some thirty (30) Primary and High Schools in Jamaica, the most recent being that students have been using have been using them to access Social Media Websites. 

Some students have even bypasssed the CMS (Content Management System) put in place by GeoTechVision Enterprises Limited as I'd reported in my blog article entitled ”Male Student hacks TIS Project Tablet as Distribution Expands - Tablets Problems require Creative Jamaican solutions to deliver Lessons to the Learners We Teach”.

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With success being recorded in getting boys interested and engaged in the Classroom and Girls now being introduced to ITC (Information Technology and Computing) at this level as noted in my blog article entitled “TIS Project a Success with Boys - JA$9000 for Subsidized Tablets as TIS Project replaces 600,000 Students School Books with e-books come September 2015”, the TIS Project Test phase will end with a resounding success and September 2015 will mark the official roll out across all High Schools in Jamaica.

The TIS Project Tablets come with a Case but thus far I’ve not seen any with keyboards. This suggests that parents will have to buy one as well as Bluetooth mice to pair with the Tablets come September 2015.

At that time, the start of the 2015-2016 School Term,  Tablets will be packing e-books, Apps and Web Apps choc full of Learning Content from Book Publisher’s making the purchase of heavy Textbooks and oversized knapsacks as noted in my blog article entitled “JA$114 million spent on Content for TIS Project Tablets - JA$76 million on Math, English and Science Content by January 2015 to stop Teachers Padding Book-lists for Commissions”.

Competition on the horizon from Microsoft - Apple iPad is for Corporate Warriors but Competition is coming

The Google Chromebooks for the K-12 System come with Keyboards and Trackpad, making them distraction-free learning tools.

Their success in U.S. K-12 School Districts will not go unnoticed by their competition; already Microsoft has teamed up with HP to introduce cheaper US$200 HP Stream Laptops that also have complementary 1TB OneDrive cloud Storage thrown in as noted in my blog article entitled “US$200 HP Stream Netbooks and Tablets – Microsoft floating Windows 8.1 on Free 1TB Microsoft OneDrive Cloud against Google's Chromebooks”.

Apple might have something in the wings, such as the much rumoured larger 12.9" Tablets as mentioned in the article “The megapad is coming: New details reveal specs of 12.2inch ‘iPad Air Plus’ set for release next year”, published 1 December 2014 19:41 GMT By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON and MARK PRIGG, The Daily Mail UK.

Possibly coming with a Case that doubles as a keyboard as I’d long predicted for this gigantic Apple iPad as noted in my blog article entitled “Microsoft launches Surface Pro 3 - Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 puts Kibosh on Tablets with Apple having to make a larger Keyboard iPad”!

With power consumption set to get lower, once the Laptop maker adopt the usage of the Intel Core M Processor across their product ranges as predicted in my blog article entitled “Intel Core M Processor codenamed Broadwell – How Fanless, Smaller and Thinner proves that If Life Gives you Lemons, Make Lemonade”, look out for Chromebooks and their competition becoming more power-efficient as well, possibly even solar powered.

For now, Google has score a decisive victory in their latest Beachhead, that being the U.S. K-12 Battleground! That free 1TB makes buying a Google Chromebook all the more enticing this Christmas 2014!

Why @Snapchat is rolling out Snapcash Mobile Money Platform Teenagers and Millennials

Snapchat has launched Snapcash, a service that allows the Millennials (ages 18 to 28) to send cash to each other as reported in the article “Snapchat launches Snapcash payment feature with Square”, published 17 November 2014, BBC News.

Snapchat announced this on Wednesday November 17^th 2014 via their Press Release on their Snapchat blog article “Introducing Snapcash”, published November 17th 2014, Snapchat Blog. Check out the YouTube video below that not only explains how the new service works but strangely evokes themes drawn from Prohibition era of the Flapper-glam Roaring 20’s juxtaposed in a 21^st Century setting!

This product comes on the heels of their Snapchat Discovery Platform announced Friday October 17^th 2014 that debuts Advertising on Snapchat for the first time as I’d reported in my blog article entitled “Snapchat does Advertising with Snapchat Discovery – 100 Million Strong Potential for reaching Teenagers with Snapchat Stories for Advertising”.

Snapcash Origins – Square CEO sends Snapchat CEO US$25 and Snapcash is born

Apparently the idea for Snapcash originated back in May of 2013 when Square CEO Jack Dorsey sent Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel US$25 as a demonstrating of how his service works. His response via email, as distilled in the article “Snapchat to Let You Send Money to Friends, Thanks to Square” published November 17, 2014, 12:25 PM PST by Kurt Wagner, Recode, is an indication of the forge in which ideas spawn and spread their leathery wings to glide the skies of real-time implementation.

Powered by Square, it’s supposedly secure, as Snapchat doesn’t record the Debit Card numbers entered, merely acting as a conduit for Square. Plus Snapcash only takes Prepaid Debit Card; Hackers groan as it’s nearly pointless to steal one sans its PIN (Personal Identification Number).

So now that I’ve made it clear to hackers why stealing Cash from a Debit Card is pointless, how does Snapcash Work? Better Question, when will the other Mobile Social Networks roll out a similar Feature?

Snapchat rolls out Snapcash – Teenagers and Millennials may be the Catalyst for Mobile Money

If you watched and listened to the song in the audio-themed Snapcash Advert, you’d have caught on as to how to use Snapcash. For the more literary among us who like reading thing in print, the Business Insider article “Snapchat Just Launched A Dead-Simple Way To Send Your Friends Money”, published NOV. 17, 2014, 3:35 PM by ALYSON SHONTELL, Business Insider beautifully explains how it works:

1.      Enter your Debit Card information into Square, which is an embedded widget inside of Snapchat API (Application Interface)

2.      Sent a Private message toy your friend on Snapchat begging you for cash

3.      Type the $ sign and the amount

4.      Snapchat recognizes the entry and a green “$” button lights up

5.      Press the button to sent that amount

A few caveats though.

Snapcash accepts Visa or Mastercard Debit Cards; not so sure about other types of Prepaid Cards. Also, there is a limit of US$2,500 per week, so hacking a Snapchat account in a bid to launder money through a Prepaid Debit Card as I’d once explained in my blog article entitled “Jamaican Music Industry 2 Years post-Ban - How Artiste and Booking Agents Launder Money”.

If you're friend has no Snapchat account, no problem; you can still send them cash and they can still receive it, provided they sign up for Snapchat within 24 hours as pointed out in the article “Snapchat Now Lets You Send Money To Friends Through Snapcash Deal With Square Cash” published Nov 17, 2014 by Josh Constine, TechCrunch.

So no, your cash won't self-destruct. That's mainly a thing for the Private IM (Instant Messages) and Videos, not the money!

Snapcash and Snapchat’s Privacy concerns – Snapcash will be profitable, once it goes global

Many Millennials (ages 18 to 28) might not be so trusting of Snapchat after 200,000 of their nudies went viral after the Snappening, only hack that really resonated with their demographic as reported in my blog article entitled “200,000 Naked Teenagers in Snapchat’s Snappening – How Teenagers Private Parts got swiped by Child Pornography Admins in the Thomas Crowne Affair”.

Still, it's clearly not a profitability move, as Millennials aren't exactly the most spendthrift of people as pointed out in the article “Will Snapchat's Snapcash Be A Success?”, published 11/26/2014 @ 12:39PM, by Quora, Forbes.

Snapchat may make enough money from the Square partnership to merely cover their expenses, with the real beneficiary being Square, who’ll gain more new members with each Square account created within Snapchat than they do currently as a standalone App.

Undoubtedly, other Mobile Social Networks will follow; already Facebook and Twitter have plans for a “Buy” Button as described in my blog article entitled “Twitter’s one-click Buy Button – How One-Click E-Commerce is Twitter’s Great Smurfberry Scam Confessions of a Shopaholic”, so Mobile Money may not be too far behind in their plans!

Snapchat and the Digicel connection – Possible model for Digicel’s Mobile Money Platform

As for Jamaicans, my main concern here, this has nothing to do with us. However, if you can set up a VPN as described in my blog article entitled “Surfing the Internet Anonymously using VPN - How to use Streaming Set Top Boxes over VPN” and log on the internet using a Wi-Fi Router and sign up for Snapchat, you might just be able to set up this service on your smartphone.

Then that American girl you met on FB and who mentioned having a Snapchat account can not only send you nude pics of her svelte doppelganger, but naked cash as well straight to your Scotia Visa Debit Card as described in my Geezam blog article entitled “How to use Scotia VISA Debit Card Online” .

It may also be a herald for how Digicel may choose to launch their version of Mobile Money either in December 2014 or by early 2015 in the Year of the Sheep.

The model used by Snapchat gives an indication as to how Telecom Provider Digicel might roll out a Mobile Money Platform powered by Scotia Bank in Jamaica as predicted in my blog article entitled “Digicel to roll out Mobile Money Service in 2014 - Haiti Tcho Tcho Mobile Love is Bringing the Boom with ScotiaBank heralds Cashless Society by 2015”.  

Best of all, not only is it totally secure, but it won't Self-Destruct!