While the Apple phone announcement took CES 2007 by storm (as in taking attention away from CES), there is another announcement that is as important, if not more important, than the Apple phone:
⇒ Visa, Nokia turn cell phones into credit cards
This is huge…
As I wrote in Thoughts on Mobility 2007, mobile payments are one of the hot mobility areas to watch. And we are just starting. Having Nokia and Visa and IBM and others talk about this, and pushing products in this area says a whole lot about the kind of innovation and “going to market” that will happen starting in 2007 .
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