DISQUS

Hi Nick,

You're absolutely right about the mobile divide. Like many technological advances in the past this one is also about the economics of the marketplace especially in the US where users expect devices to be greatly subsidized. While Nokia, RIM, HTC & Sony Ericsson are trying to gauge the market response to unlocked devices via Best Buy they haven't introduced low end devices in the sub $100 range that will gain the mass adoption for data required in the marketplace. In fact, several OEMs have stated their focus on low end VO+SMS devices for the high growth Asian markets to make up for the volumes.

While we continue to discuss fully featured browsers for mobile devices that offer many rich services there's a huge market in WAP services that many fail to capitalize on.

Given the varied level of capabilites that any 2 given WAP browsers have it's understandable why any developer would not want to go to the extent of supporting WAP - it's too costly for supporting so many different WAP browsers.

While a HTC device with Android is still very welcome I'm waiting to see when a variation of Andoid will be available for low end ARM9 equipped devices which may not meet today's requirements for Android. This will truly drive the adoption of data services amongst price conscious users & possibly make data plans a standard offering among the carriers & provide an opportunity to bolster their revenies from data ARPU.

As with the internet broadband it is a matter of time that we'll see users warming up to internet access via their mobile devices.

This is a cool strategy from Netflix. Their streaming video is of high quality & so it's a matter of time before they introduce a plan that's catered to just streaming content. Overtime I see folks move their subscriptions from the DVD rental to only the online service. They have a great Product team that's pushing the envelope on innovation.