DISQUS

Paul Ruppert at Mobile Point V · 1 year ago

Nic, nice post, but I think your focus is too narrow on the driver for mobile internet. I don't think it is an "either or" scenario. The web is not, "tethered" or "untethered" as you imply. I think it will be driven by multiple nodes, with mobile being one access point, albeit a major one, to the web. The clash between mobile macro networks (aka MNOs in EU, or Carriers in US) have their form factor and engineering restrictions and the desk web guys (Google,Msft,Y!) have theirs. But the liliputians such as game counsels, WiFi devices (including handsets), autos, M2M, will also have a role to play, and will force change by the titans, mostly from the operator world. I'll be covering the same topic later at my blog, www.mobilepointview.com
Cheers,
Paul

Martin Owen · 1 year ago

I was once on an expert panel on"killer apps for the mobile phone" (IBC Amsterdam 2005). My fellow panelists (some of whom had wisely invested in Jamba's crazy frog) were all for mobile video - and had cool peripherals to make viewing easier - thus changing mobile form factors.

I thought we already had the mobile killer app. We talk to each other using it. People buy and use phones for that interaction. Any new service should really take some benefit from that particular affordance - and indeed the other unique bits of being in your pocket when you are somewhere. Services should ease customer's pain.

Yes, Paul, MNO's need to loosen up. This will not happen top-down