Comments on: It’s time to take “social” for granted http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/03/31/its-time-to-take-social-for-granted/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:44:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Thomas Purves http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/03/31/its-time-to-take-social-for-granted/comment-page-1/#comment-12311 Thomas Purves Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:41:05 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/03/31/its-time-to-take-social-for-granted/#comment-12311 Thanks for your comment Cornelius. Agreed that mobile is a tougher one to argue. In Canada, it's far worse than Germany. The market for off-deck mobile applications is practically non-existent, thanks to our wonderfully near-sighted carrier industry. Even the US is hardly that much better. But it will change. It will all change. We can always spend the meantime pushing it to change faster. Despite sometimes even the telco industry's fiercest efforts, for a hundred years the long term trend in connectivity is always heading asymptotically towards free and ubiquitous, at speeds only bounded by moore's law. The social stuff is here and now and done, the mobile is (in my country) completely missing in action, but the point is the same. The next-next-wave of really cool ideas will be built on taking them both for granted. Thanks for your comment Cornelius.

Agreed that mobile is a tougher one to argue. In Canada, it’s far worse than Germany. The market for off-deck mobile applications is practically non-existent, thanks to our wonderfully near-sighted carrier industry. Even the US is hardly that much better. But it will change. It will all change. We can always spend the meantime pushing it to change faster.

Despite sometimes even the telco industry’s fiercest efforts, for a hundred years the long term trend in connectivity is always heading asymptotically towards free and ubiquitous, at speeds only bounded by moore’s law.

The social stuff is here and now and done, the mobile is (in my country) completely missing in action, but the point is the same.

The next-next-wave of really cool ideas will be built on taking them both for granted.

]]> By: Cornelius http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/03/31/its-time-to-take-social-for-granted/comment-page-1/#comment-12310 Cornelius Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:22:20 +0000 http://www.thomaspurves.com/2008/03/31/its-time-to-take-social-for-granted/#comment-12310 I totally agree but I cannot see that mobile is taking for granted this quickly. Web 2.0 companies are already on stock markets or had big exits but are there any mobile companies close to this? Together with a friend, we just decided to work on a mobile startup in Germany. There will be an internationalized application in the beginning. So, we are joining the next big thing and are aware of competition. ;-) Cornelius. I totally agree but I cannot see that mobile is taking for granted this quickly. Web 2.0 companies are already on stock markets or had big exits but are there any mobile companies close to this?

Together with a friend, we just decided to work on a mobile startup in Germany. There will be an internationalized application in the beginning.
So, we are joining the next big thing and are aware of competition. ;-)

Cornelius.

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