Comments on: The term ‘Normob’ hits the big time

By: The End of the Smartphone? at Wap Review

The End of the Smartphone? at Wap Review — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:37:44 +0000

[...] the iPhone for this. It’s raised ordinary consumer’s expectations of what a mobile phone can do. Normobs want iPhone-like features at the traditional “free with 2 year contract” price point. Carriers and [...]

By: Dean Bubley

Dean Bubley — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:24:20 +0000

Hi Ewan Nice one! Glad to know where it all started. Cheers Dean Dean Bubley's last blog post..Starting to dismantle the Tyranny of the SIM card

By: Vlad

Vlad — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:18:58 +0000

It’s a great word, if you ask me, and one that I did dare to quote a lot. I’ll link to normob.com when I use it in the future.
And yes, I think it can be used freely now.

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By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:24:51 +0000

I use it freely and quote smstextnews as the source.

Definitely (slowly) becoming an industry standard. Soon it’ll be just buzzwordy as ‘prosumer’.

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By: MarkW

MarkW — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:18:46 +0000

Aha – I looked at normob.com yesterday, following the link from Disruptive Wireless, thinking “I’m sure Ewan coined this!”. Must have been sleepwalking cos I didn’t notice that it was an smstextnews site (even though, on revisiting, it says so right there at the top!!!).