{"id":77,"date":"2012-03-12T17:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T00:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-06-12T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T19:11:15","slug":"how-do-you-shop-on-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/2012\/03\/12\/how-do-you-shop-on-your-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Shop on Your SmartPhone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading an <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/03\/12\/shopping-via-smartphone\/\">article<\/a> today about a study that was conducted to see whether shoppers use retail apps or the mobile web to do their shopping when on the go. \u00a0Just for clarification, a retail app is an application that you can download onto your phone that allows you to browse merchandise as well as purchase merchandise. \u00a0Using the mobile web is just like browsing on your laptop, except that it has been optimized for the mobile screen.<\/p>\n<p>The reasoning for this result was that users spend more time on shopping apps when downloaded onto their phones therefore resorting to just browsing through the mobile web.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I was a little shocked when first reading this. \u00a0I like retail apps because everything is organized and easy to go through. \u00a0Also, it loads very fast because it is just an app. \u00a0The downside for this is that you don&#8217;t really know when or how often the app is updated. \u00a0As for the mobile web, I think I just have a bad experience because it always loads so slow for me, especially when I try to view pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it is true that I probably spend more time on the app due to the availability of it, but compared to time waiting for the mobile web, I would rather spend my time shopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading an article today about a study that was conducted to see whether shoppers use retail apps or the mobile web to do their shopping when on the go. \u00a0Just for clarification, a retail app is an application that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/2012\/03\/12\/how-do-you-shop-on-your-smartphone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":9,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"lauren","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/author\/laurenf\/"},"qubely_comment":9,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"After reading an article today about a study that was conducted to see whether shoppers use retail apps or the mobile web to do their shopping when on the go. \u00a0Just for clarification, a retail app is an application that &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/laurenf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}