Comments on: MWC: An emerging theme? http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/02/mwc_an_emerging_theme.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:31:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben Smith http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/02/mwc_an_emerging_theme.html/comment-page-1#comment-241843 Ben Smith Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:32:27 +0000 http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/?p=15105#comment-241843 Absolutely agreed... sadly on the evidence of current activity and talking to a few of the operators here in Barcelona this week they don't plan to do that :-( Absolutely agreed… sadly on the evidence of current activity and talking to a few of the operators here in Barcelona this week they don't plan to do that :-(

]]> By: Ben Smith http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/02/mwc_an_emerging_theme.html/comment-page-1#comment-236915 Ben Smith Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:32:27 +0000 http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/?p=15105#comment-236915 Absolutely agreed... sadly on the evidence of current activity and talking to a few of the operators here in Barcelona this week they don't plan to do that :-( Absolutely agreed… sadly on the evidence of current activity and talking to a few of the operators here in Barcelona this week they don't plan to do that :-(

]]> By: Mike Bradshaw http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/02/mwc_an_emerging_theme.html/comment-page-1#comment-236869 Mike Bradshaw Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:28:00 +0000 http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/?p=15105#comment-236869 While true that Apple is making lots of money from it's app store and there is potential for a battle between operators and handset manufacturers, the most sensible ones will make agreements.<br><br>The *really* clever operators will stop development of their own app store, and become what we want them to be - dumb pipe delivery and billing, as this costs less to provide so they can squeeze down prices (as they don't need to pay for the development and maintanence of an AppStore) While true that Apple is making lots of money from it's app store and there is potential for a battle between operators and handset manufacturers, the most sensible ones will make agreements.

The *really* clever operators will stop development of their own app store, and become what we want them to be – dumb pipe delivery and billing, as this costs less to provide so they can squeeze down prices (as they don't need to pay for the development and maintanence of an AppStore)

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[Original tweet, Topsy page]

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