“It’s Friday – I’m in love!”, The Cure
This week has been pretty mind-blowing to be honest. Two pretty major announcements made from two behemoths in the industry. First out was Vodafone “outing” itself as a smart pipe nothing more and nothing less. Let’s hope the walk matches the talk. Your humble blogger has been a proponent of this for a long time as you know. More about it here and here.
Then we had Nokia announcing that they would halt development of Ovi Share, align their efforts to work more in sync with third parties like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook. Good thinking and way to go to leverage the position as the leading mobiel phone company.
I think we have just witnessed some very positive things the whole economic crisis has brought. This will help growth in the mobile apps/content business. Hopefully this will trigger more outings and realignments for the better.
What is the next move by the big players that would have the biggest positive impact on our industry?
I have come across your blog entry and totally agree that the current economic crisis has certainly bought positive results to the mobile industry as people re consider markting options.
Marie,
Thanks for your comment. It feels good to know there are others out there that see upsides in this climate. If you offer the right product or service and you have the possibility to operate with a cost structure and system that can respond fast and has the economic possibility to support it there are huge opportunities out there.