Cross posted from my personal blog (which, by now shouldn't really be a surprise) - Mobile applications across multiple operating systems is exactly what the sector needs.
Last week Research in Motion announced plans to incorporate applications for the Android mobile operating system (developed by Google) into their Blackberry devices, which run their own, proprietary operating system.
I, for one, think this is an absolutely brilliant idea and something that the mobile phone sector is desperately going to need in years to come.
Having the ability to move applications between devices and operating systems is something that has been missing from the mobile phone sector since applications and mobile computing started to become all the rage for consumers a couple of years ago.
Currently, when a customer moves from one phone to another they basically lose everything that they had stored on their previous device; applications, contacts, notes, whatever. All this information is (usually) stored in special formats that are only readable by devices from the same manufacturer and running the same operating system. So when you change, you have to sta ...
Cross posted from my blog: http://matthewhatton.id.au/?p=706 - The Daily is set to be the litmus test that determines whether or not online news publication has a business model.
Rupert Murdoch’s iPad-only
digital newspaper, The Daily, is going to be the litmus test for paid, online news
when it eventually launches sometime in February or March this year.
While online delivery of news
has been around forever and we’ve even seen companies like Crikey deliver paid
content exclusively over the internet, this is the first time that we’re going
to see a popular, mainstream outlet attempt to embrace online distribution and
attempt to find that elusive business model that seems to have been largely
lacking.
The uptake, or lack of it, is
going to determine whether or not publishers and news organisations can see a
way to turn exclusively online news (and we’re going to be forced that way
eventually) into something that they can derive a profit from.
If it doesn’t work – we go back
to square one and will be left asking just what is going to happen as we
continue to watch traditional media outlets die off.
We haven’t se ...
Note: Cross-posted from my personal blog.
The creation of the internet has ushered in the era of the true global marketplace. It has expanded the reach of business beyond what anyone in history could have imagined. It has given consumers the opportunity to not only shop locally or nationally but also now globally.
The opportunities are there for business as well. Just as consumers are shop from any number of online stores, businesses can also sell their products and services to a person regardless o ...
Note: Cross-posted from my personal blog.
The creation of the internet has ushered in the era of the true global marketplace. It has expanded the reach of business beyond what anyone in history could have imagined. It has given consumers the opportunity to not only shop locally or nationally but also now globally.
The opportunities are there for business as well. Just as consumers are shop from any number of online stores, businesses can also sell their products and services to a person regardless of which corner of the world they reside in. The ability for a business to be able to compete, and potentially profit – from a global marketplace has never been greater.
Sadly, what we're seeing is that this 21st century opportunity is being crippled by 20th century protectionism.
The problem stems from the fact that instead of treating the internet like the single, global market that it is they continue to try and force people into their geography-based ...