At techdirt, Carlo writes 3GSM World Congress: What Happened To The Hype?, where he wrote something that caught my eye:
“What's interesting, though, is to see non-broadcast video getting a growing amount of attention as smart companies cotton on to the idea that non-linear, channel-organized video isn't the be-all and end-all of mobile video, and that consumers are going to want mobile access to the sort of internet video content they enjoy on their PC.”
I've always thought from day one that video, and multimedia in general is going to be huge in the mobile space; but video/multimedia from the social perspective, as in sharing “special” moments or events, and communication. I made this realization back in 1996-97 while working on the AIX multimedia streaming server, when I played with the concept of video emails… So I am not surprised to see Mobile TV coming behind the use of “video for the purpose of enhancing communications and socials aspects” — at the end of the day, the mobile handset is a social apparatus.
So mobile video for social purposes is the next leap in the personal mobile communication space. It just have taken a long time for the right ingredients (handsets, APIs, network, services, people) to fall into place; but the time is approaching – from noise into reality…
Related to this:
* ABI Research 3GSM Day 3
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