Russ - the only issue I have with this eloquent rant is the comment "Carriers are willing to invest billions for the license and the infrastructure to enable next generation wireless services" - it was Tom Evslin that pointed out that it is worth that much to the existing telcos to stop any innovation: "It’s worth it for at&t and Verizon and perhaps even big cablecos to bid high for these dangerous frequencies in order to protect their existing business. But they have no incentive to hurry to put these frequencies to use or ever allow them to emerge as the basis for competition to their lucrative retail businesses. The 700MHz frequencies are worth almost as much fallow as in use to them." (http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/07/googles-good-...)
George
· 1 year ago
Russ, interesting choice of screenshot. Did you screen captured my iPhone? :P
In related news, John Gruber said this in his Daring Fireball blog: "With fewer than eight months on the market, MobileSafari — sans Flash support — already has the largest market share of all mobile web browsers." @_@!
There are a lot of miss information out there... That's for sure.
rcarmo
· 1 year ago
I'd say Nokia would wipe out those figures the day the added a Google search field to their standby screen... At a price, obviously. And Opera's deal with Yahoo is the reverse example right now.
PaulSweeney
· 1 year ago
Good post. Informative. Might be a nice follow on post from someone to point out the "true cost of viral marketing". There have been a few nice posts on Free-to-Fee (freemium) models out there, disperson patterns, etc., but it would be good to have someone with actual hands on experience from the "big player" point of view, point out the True Cost of marketing in a start up's plans. I guess you are looking at some of these issues with Mowser.....
George
· 1 year ago
@Mike.:This is Russ' blog so I don't want to hijack the thread and talk about Mobile Safari market share. But by all means, if you can consider 1-2% of the total mobile browser market share as the "largest" .
The Mobile Web didn't start with Safari Mobile. There are other browsers out there such as Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, the default Nokia S40 browser, and like it or not, IE mobile is still widely used.... to name a few.
Awesome!! "We want every phone to be a Google phone." -- regards to Android initiative is completely fakes Java and standarts! It's a cheat! There's no certifications or validation for the platform, anybody can develop (if the "Google's JAVA" support it -- I mean, lot of unsupported API's that has been offered) a malware or something bad easily. Like Windows huh?
Also, their VM - Dalvik - isn't OPEN... so what about collecting interpreted information directly from ALL applications? Ops, developers... do you know that? If you don't... can you imagine if end-users do?
Great post! Cheers
Mike
· 1 year ago
Miss information my ass George mobile safari does have the largest share, no other mobile device can make the web bearable.
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"It’s worth it for at&t and Verizon and perhaps even big cablecos to bid high for these dangerous frequencies in order to protect their existing business. But they have no incentive to hurry to put these frequencies to use or ever allow them to emerge as the basis for competition to their lucrative retail businesses. The 700MHz frequencies are worth almost as much fallow as in use to them." (http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/07/googles-good-...)
In related news, John Gruber said this in his Daring Fireball blog: "With fewer than eight months on the market, MobileSafari — sans Flash support — already has the largest market share of all mobile web browsers." @_@!
There are a lot of miss information out there... That's for sure.
The Mobile Web didn't start with Safari Mobile. There are other browsers out there such as Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, the default Nokia S40 browser, and like it or not, IE mobile is still widely used.... to name a few.
Wait. Russ actually wrote about this too! :P
http://russellbeattie.com/blog/lies-damn-lies-a...
remember this article http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/ahh-that-exp...
And what's up with the comments like "how nice the iPhone interface is than the rest (it is the best mobile browsing experience bar none)"
Safari came to Nokia S60 3rd edition before the iPhone and it works better than the iphone's browser in my view.
ceo
(via Tao of Mac, who linked here)
"We want every phone to be a Google phone." -- regards to Android initiative is completely fakes Java and standarts! It's a cheat! There's no certifications or validation for the platform, anybody can develop (if the "Google's JAVA" support it -- I mean, lot of unsupported API's that has been offered) a malware or something bad easily. Like Windows huh?
Also, their VM - Dalvik - isn't OPEN... so what about collecting interpreted information directly from ALL applications? Ops, developers... do you know that? If you don't... can you imagine if end-users do?
Great post!
Cheers