Comments on: Three: so near, yet so far http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2004/08/30/three-so-near-yet-so-far/ by Neil McIntosh Wed, 04 May 2011 13:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Steinberg http://www.completetosh.com/weblog/2004/08/30/three-so-near-yet-so-far/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Tom Steinberg Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:40:37 +0000 http://69.89.31.92/~complew7/?p=104#comment-101 The management processes fueling this woeful, historically ignorant business decision are so transparent that it's quite painful to watch. Ask people who have no experience of the mobile net except a vague idea of cWAP, in expensive focus groups, if they want net access on their phones. 'Too hard', 'confusing', 'small screen' come the responses, formatted into elegant CEO level powerpoint. Their answers then serve to support a walled garden business model so crude it could be written by an A-level economics student. Meanwhile Treo 600s and those sony erricson smartphone jobbies are selling shops dry... and what do they all have in common? Functioning web and email, of course. And everyone who uses these will tell you that they already know what the ultimate mobile killer app of the future is. It's Google, stoopid! The management processes fueling this woeful, historically ignorant business decision are so transparent that it’s quite painful to watch. Ask people who have no experience of the mobile net except a vague idea of cWAP, in expensive focus groups, if they want net access on their phones. ‘Too hard’, ‘confusing’, ‘small screen’ come the responses, formatted into elegant CEO level powerpoint. Their answers then serve to support a walled garden business model so crude it could be written by an A-level economics student.

Meanwhile Treo 600s and those sony erricson smartphone jobbies are selling shops dry… and what do they all have in common? Functioning web and email, of course. And everyone who uses these will tell you that they already know what the ultimate mobile killer app of the future is. It’s Google, stoopid!

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