“On Search for Moto CEO, or for that first day to-do list”
Not strictly related to UIQ. But Tomi Ahonen explains the “emerging markets” concept, as well as go through several different reasons why successful markets are shaped and formed - and why Motorola just didn’t get the memo.
The question is where the emerging markets are for usable ultra- mobile platforms, high data transfer nodes, visual object manipulation, and cross- platform software- development, in all of this.
Read the entire (long) rant over at “Communities Dominate Brands”.
(I wonder if the format might be a bit off, though… Oh, wait. Hold on. I’ve got a memo right here. A bit old, but..)
Ahahahaha!
LOL……good article, good “memo”….very funny.
Not strictly related to UIQ, no, but apposite nonetheless.
Good read !
Thanks, Asri, a good find. A must read for people seriously into things mobile. And, if you ask me, start waving the Motorola handset business goodbye…
Oh my, I just saw I thanked the wrong one - thanks Nipsen…
ROTFL!!!
I think it all has to do with Moto’s greedy decision which is uneconomic to say the least. If we look at Moto’s strategic decision in the last 5 years or so for future intelliphones aka smartphones, I still dont understand why they want to stick their fingers into almost all mobile OS known to mankind.
Their venture with MS still didnt create that WOW impact, just plain and simple WinMob smartphones, they didnt make any breakthrough with UIQ neither, and dont get me started on the various Linux initiatives which Moto is part of…
So, NIPSEN for Moto CEO anyone? …
Hello
How about the date 1998 ?
Br
Gerhard
..I had the feeling it was 1998 when I read that piece on the state of the mobile industry.. That’s when I heard about sms taking over the mobile use - that calling would be a secondary service - and that this was why sms would be where the money would be: On sms and wap- based services. Location- based services was already on the way - but no one seemed to be able to spell out just how it was supposed to work. And that’s still the case - the only real location- based service we have at the moment is google- maps - and ways to spy on your girlfriend. Even if the server- based cell- info services are implemented across all networks supporting sms at the moment.
So where’s the notifications for roadblocks, theater performances and concerts? Nowehere to be seen - because texting is still the one major point where the phone- makers insist on making an effort. Wireless TV, other creative use of the radio bands, increased free data services, specific subscription- based data- services, ems (or multi- type recording of voice, photos, video - it’s all fallen off the list, because the “most advanced” telecoms still keep wondering whether “sawing off the branch they’re sitting on” with sms really is a good idea.
So we have the sms- based services turning up - i.e., that some firm or other will want to pay the telecoms to buy their existing transport- facilities, and use “sms”- services for whatever purpose - such as donations, paying for parking space, etc. Which is a good idea, of course - but it’s still hopelessly stuck in 1998. And it’s still the case that if the telecoms really want to expand on these things, they need to be transparent with how they deal with data- security, and privacy issues.
While the concept of simply offering transport- services for customers, or allowing registered services for monthly fees, becomes difficult to focus on. Because it, again, suggests that sms is on the way out. (Which is of course completely silly - just as the idea that going for sms was going to ruin the call- services.. which was something people argued, strongly, when this all started. Oh, “people are going to stop using their phones, and we’re going to go out of business!”. When instead it simply got more people connected, and more people made more calls as well. Was the same with IP- telephony a while back “no! people are going to just sit in front of their computers and initiate calls no- one is going to get any money back from!. But why not just supply these new services with gsm- presence networks? And allow the money to come in from data- traffic instead?
Really.. how complicated is this, really - if you push in more appealing and varied services, people are going to put more money into it. Sort of makes sense, no?).