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On Reasons Why The Mobile/Wireless Usage Boom is Underway | Part 2

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Back in April 2008, around a year after the introduction of the iPhone and Android, I wrote a piece on my blog on the Reasons Why The Mobile/Wireless Usage Boom was Underway, where I introduced the diagram below that highlights the convergence between the mobile lifestyle, advanced handsets and the state of the networks: Here … Read more

On-bill App Store Purchases – finally, an operator leveraging their own infrastructure in new ways, on the new era of app stores

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Operators have so much infrastructure already in place and it has taken them so many years to take advantage of it in news ways — to leverage such infrastructure for their own benefit and the benefit of the ecosystem, by repackaging and offering this infrastructure as “open” Services: their payment system, their marketing/reach methods, their … Read more

On Nokia’s App Store Strategy

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As you may know, there are rumors of Nokia getting ready to launch their very own app store. This is an interesting (but necessary) move by Nokia, a company that traditionally has been very careful about not “crossing the line” into their customers (i.e. MNO) territory, as crossing such line creates a love/hate relationship with … Read more

Goodbye 2008 and welcome 2009 and some predictions on mobility

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2008 was a very interesting year for me, with both failures and successes and tons of lessons learned. But life is good. 2009 will be a very interesting year for mobility and handsets and applications. An example of this was yesterday when I was on my way to the Orange Partners Conference. The bus driver … Read more