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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Commentary on the Mobile 2.0 conference in San Francisco
I wasn't there, so I can safely be "clever" without having to take the consequences.
Mike Rowehl that arranged the event makes some valid points about the chaos (my interpretation) in the mobile industry where actors don't seem to be at all in sync with each other. I wrote the following comment to his entry to highlight what makes sense in this situation (another one of those "quoting myself" moments):
I sense we in the industry need a user-to-service approach instead of the other way around. Remember that the Web as we know it didn't exist until there was a reasonable browser available that could show pictures and do some formatting. The same goes with phones: Look at what a phone can do and what a user wants to do and design the services based on that. Don't just think browser access or SMS access etc. Think broad and use the amazing amount of technology phones already have to build services users want. Don't wait for tomorrow's technology. Everything we need is already in the phones.
On top of that: An industry that always waits for the next new technology is not healthy, rather it's in hype gridlock, but by using the above approach part of the gridlock is gone.
Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Mobile 2.0 - Didn’t Quite Do It
Mike Rowehl that arranged the event makes some valid points about the chaos (my interpretation) in the mobile industry where actors don't seem to be at all in sync with each other. I wrote the following comment to his entry to highlight what makes sense in this situation (another one of those "quoting myself" moments):
I sense we in the industry need a user-to-service approach instead of the other way around. Remember that the Web as we know it didn't exist until there was a reasonable browser available that could show pictures and do some formatting. The same goes with phones: Look at what a phone can do and what a user wants to do and design the services based on that. Don't just think browser access or SMS access etc. Think broad and use the amazing amount of technology phones already have to build services users want. Don't wait for tomorrow's technology. Everything we need is already in the phones.
On top of that: An industry that always waits for the next new technology is not healthy, rather it's in hype gridlock, but by using the above approach part of the gridlock is gone.
Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility » Blog Archive » Mobile 2.0 - Didn’t Quite Do It
