Diversity of the Mobile Univers… far from going away!
Thomas Menguy | October 6, 2006As usual a great read from Mobile Opportunity: Mobile Opportunity: Facing reality in the mobile industry. It describes how difficult is it to build a new application/services for the Mobile Phone market, taking a great example : SKYPE. It’s a mix of hardware issues, and software compatibilities.
Tarek talks about the old CDMA/GSM battle and the Ultra Low Cost Market:
It’s A GSM Kinda Developing World. Imagine, we have not even set and agreed on the radio technology, the processor is converging to ARM (7 for some, 9 or event 11 for others), so don’t talks about the software/services plateform!…but is it a bad thing after all? Ok interoperability is a big great thing … but to have no limits in the creativity is perhaps even more important at the end, to choose the right Hardware/software combination to reach target prices.
Vision Mobile has a good post on Diversity :
User interfaces and soft walled gardens of tomorrow Brands have a real strength, this is not a dull windows/Mac/KDE/Gnome world. Nokia means something, Sony Ericsson also…. they have great UI specifications, and strong brand awareness.