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By: jgovernor

jgovernor — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:05:03 +0000

i dont want to say too much about fat and bloated - which doesnt take long these days. But suffice to say RedMonk is one of the change-making companies, rather than an incumbent. So what industry are you approaching from? Nokia has certainly begun to play out the new operator killer strategy. its one reason i can’t work out for the life of me why Apple signed the Cingular deal.

By: will

will — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:55:12 +0000

delighted to see someone else singing the same tune james. your thoughts are really interesting.

one of the odd things about being first in this new category is that the 1990’s mobile revolutionaries have become fat, bloated and establishment, with millions of customers to extort (sorry, support) and call centres to fill.

even though they were once the natural change-makers, their appeitite for change has now gone.
that means that, as with the airline industry, someone from the outside has got to come along and disrupt.

perhaps more interesting however is the role of the handset manufacturers, who are at once in league with the operators, and against them. they will have an interesting role to play in the next 12 months. watch this space…