http://shift6.net/2008/04/30/does-everyone-want-mobile-web/ Youth, mobility and media Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:13:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://shift6.net/2008/04/30/does-everyone-want-mobile-web/#comment-290 jkd Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:22:54 +0000 http://shift6.net/2008/04/30/does-everyone-want-mobile-web/#comment-290 It's a question of revenues. As with the even-less-clamored-for camera phone before it, adding mobile web capabilities to a phone allows the phone companies to open up a new revenue stream, and in most Northern countries - where the mobile market is already mature, and there is long-term downward pressure on prices for other (rapidly commoditizing) services - any opportunity for a new revenue stream, especially one with fatter profit margins, is one the phone companies will take. Until and unless the mobile web <i>refusnik</i> market reveals itself as an additional revenue stream or market niche, I doubt there'll be much product development in that area - after all, there are millions of already-produced-but-unsold phones sitting around out there that are mobile-web-incapable. It’s a question of revenues. As with the even-less-clamored-for camera phone before it, adding mobile web capabilities to a phone allows the phone companies to open up a new revenue stream, and in most Northern countries - where the mobile market is already mature, and there is long-term downward pressure on prices for other (rapidly commoditizing) services - any opportunity for a new revenue stream, especially one with fatter profit margins, is one the phone companies will take. Until and unless the mobile web refusnik market reveals itself as an additional revenue stream or market niche, I doubt there’ll be much product development in that area - after all, there are millions of already-produced-but-unsold phones sitting around out there that are mobile-web-incapable.

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