e Bay said that its mobile sales grew by 127 percent to $5 million in the U.S. and 165 percent globally to $13 million on Dec. 12 from the same day last year(according the report of TechCrunch 12/14). It is remarkable number. Most people and experts in commerce market think that mobile would be more important as well as TV commerce via smart TVs. But the key point is timing.
But it is not eoungh that a service provider puts item tags on the 1st page of website with a name of ‘Today’s Pick’ or ‘Merchant’s choice’. Anyone who uses e-Commerce doesn’t feel any inconvenience shopping around. It needs a different approach such as connecting to offline shops and social networking services. If it’s difficult to find what type of commerce would be the next, just makes the gateway as Google does.
Anyway needs for rapid product search makes an opportunity of mobile shopping bigger than before. Many young people use smartphones and they get information including shoppoing via a hand-held device such as phones, tablet PCs and portable media players.
Input method for nomad and differentiated mobile service would be key to grab a customer’s interest.