Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experienceQUOTE
More compelling is the fact that not only do huge numbers download this game, they play it with such focus that the total number of hours consumed by Angry Birds players world-wide is roughly 200 million minutes a DAY, which translates into 1.2 billion hours a year. To compare, all person-hours spent creating and updating Wikipedia totals about 100 million hours over the entire life span of Wikipedia (Neiman Journalism Lab).
So, Angry Birds is a "better encyclopedia" than WP? (IMG:
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Again, really smart response time management gives the user time to relax and think about how lame they are compared to their 4 year old who is already at the 26th level.
Does this imply that Wikipedia needs to make itself attractive to 4-year-olds in order to be as "good" as Angry Birds?
To summarize, Angry Birds is popular because it's stupid, and it manipulates the stupid user into thinking it's a smarter game than it really is. And it has lots of "mystery". (IMG:
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Wikipedia isn't stupid enough to attract the massive popularity that equals "quality" in this diseased age of ours. Although it does have plenty of "mystery". Mostly relating to why its administrators love to play dirty political tricks and block people for stupid reasons, perhaps.
I don't know which is dumber, Angry Birds or this guy's blog.
Angry Birds vs. Wikipedia
