Mobile Industry Review » AOL phase http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:46:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The mobile industry is going through it’s own ‘AOL phase’ http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/05/the_mobile_industry_is_going_through_its_own_aol_phase.html http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/05/the_mobile_industry_is_going_through_its_own_aol_phase.html#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 22:37:45 +0000 Ewan http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6564 Very perceptive this.

Link: Wireless industry going through its AOL phase | One More Thing – CNET News.com

It’s the mid-1990s for the mobile industry: lots of walled gardens, lots of fragmentation, and lots of promise.

The iPhone is leading the way.

It won’t take much for this mobile industry to catch a different wave and before we know it, the pain of expensive texts and stupid per minute call prices will be behind us. And applications will be easy to deploy. Wooo.

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