Tom Morris: Infographics are porn without the happy ending
Now, to show the complete superfluousness of infographics, I have expressed the same information in another format, namely plain text (Internet MIME type: text/plain) encoded in ASCII.
Here it is:
The iPad has been out a year.
Analysts thought it would sell 3.3 million units. It sold 14.8 million.
Oppenheimer & Co. predicts tablet shipments will grow from 15.1 million in 2011 to 115 million in 2014.
Apple has 90% of the market share.
Five simple sentences that almost anybody could understand. The wc utility on my computer tells me it is 245 bytes.
These 245 bytes of English text/plain transmits exactly the same amount of information as the 200,939 byte JPEG image and does so without making me want to kick someone in the dick.
V amusing. I suspect the seemingly far greater willingness of ppl to spread infographics means they’re here to stay tho.
