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Phone industry becoming like the PC industry

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

Ajit wrote a good post on Open Gardens yesterday analysing how the mobile phone industry is coming to resemble the PC industry. His thesis; open source software (e.g. Android) is stimulating the fragmentation of the handset market. Currently 84% of the mobile market is in the han ... Continue reading »

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alan p
8 months ago

The PC industry analogy has been around quite awhile - a more appropriate mental model imho is to observe that Apple has "made" the Mobile Web possible with the iPhone as they did with Apple II in the PC industry. The question is who will play IBM/Microsoft in Mobile. Google?

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nic
8 months ago

Hey Alan - good question. I guess if you have to pick a single company I would say Nokia or open source (maybe driven by Google). Google will be peripheral and mostly interested in pushing search and their internet products, which makes them a little different to any of the web companies.

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alan p
8 months ago

Nic, Nokia could well play the IBM role - but who will play Microsoft ;)

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