Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far
The New York Times
November 25, 2007
By Michael Fitzgerald
NYT published last week a very good analysis of mobile conjuncture and development:
On the surface, the mobile Web is a happening place. There’s the iPhone in all its glory. More than 30 companies have signed up for the Open Handset Alliance from Google, which aims to bring the wide-open development environment of the Internet to mobile devices.
Nokia, which owns nearly 40 percent of the world market for cellphones, is snapping up Web technology companies and has made an eye-popping $8.1 billion bid for Navteq, a digital mapping service. There are also the requisite start-ups chasing the market.
It all looks good, but the wireless communications business smacks of a soap opera, with disaster lurking like your next dropped call.
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/technology/25proto.html?_
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