The World Changes Friday July 11th at 8am
July 10th, 2008
Remember the caveman days of dial-up internet connections?
Remember how the world changed with the rise of affordable, high-speed broadband connections and with it, the always-on utility of the enlightened web we know today?
Tomorrow’s iPhone 3G launch will prove to be the biggest step forward in the advancement of digital distribution since the leap from dial-up to broadband.
The iPhone 3G represents ubiquitous (at least for those under the 3G network umbrella) high-speed access to web based content, communities and utilities.
What that really means is that the mobile web browsing world goes from dial-up dark ages to the broadband renaissance. Expect the world as we know it to change.
The iPhone 3G will be followed by the Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Thunder and a slew of other 3G speed, video enabled handsets. The promise of the always-on, everywhere web will be realized and that’s great news for professional content creators and application developers for three primary reasons:
- Content distribution just got a whole lot broader. Mobile syndication of premium content on a mass consumer scale will begin a sea-change which will help raise the value of content back to where it belongs.
- Phones have built-in billing systems. The psychological barrier of having to input billing data and personal info into a device to make a transaction doesn’t exist on handsets.
- The iPhone is a tethered device with applications gatekeepers. In order to write code for applications on the iPhone, you have to work with approved vendors or Apple itslef. Gatekeepers, depsite the editorial power they wield, are an important element in the creation of markets because they manage the scarce resource of digital real estate. If your content can never find an audience becuase it’s caught in the clutter, you’ll never make a buck.
Tags: 3G, blackberry, bold, caveman, iphone, thunder
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July 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I think the world changed for the better even thought there was a lot of bad.
If you had to pick a product to screw up on it’s launch day the 3G iPhone was the perfect product to bumble because the product is so good that people are forgiving about the phone services crashing. Any other product would have died but not the 3G iPhone. People love Apple and are forgiving.
Now other companies will look at the 3G launch day fiasco and say, “Glad that wasn’t us.” - “We’ll never screw up like that.” and the good ones wont’.
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