MrMe said:
Exactly my point. The consumer no longer has that choice, because the industry has taken it away from them. If Nokia (or someone similar) had said forget this and just carried on producing a basic phone (no 3G, no video etc etc) and it was a big seller, would "mobile internet subscriptions, digital music stores and various kinds of premium data transfer like video conferencing." have had so much invested in them? Would the mobile phone industry be as advanced as it is now? |
To answer that question just look at DVRs. The orriginal "DVR" was not a recorder at all but a subcription service. And, had Microsoft not bought it and then turned it into an utter failure we might not even see DVRs but a bunch of subcription services. Also, if you care to look at the technology behind the payed media services the technology is hand over fist better than the orriginal. Would the technology be so advanced if the first one had sold like gangbusters? I venture to say no. Because what sells is exactly what we get. Just look at cars until receintly the technology in cars has been woefully behind the times, and infact the actual motor technology is sill as unadvancing as ever. The same can be said of the iPod it was the most advanced player when it was first released and has MP3 player tech been heavily invested in? Not really. Sure the players hold more but the technology behind them hasn't been advancing, again until receintly.
I think that the phone industry might actually be MORE advanced. If internet subscriptions were not selling but consumer focus groups said people liked the idea of being able to do an internet search on their lunch break then naturally the mobile phone internet failing to sell would mean that people are holding out for a faster and not watered down mobile internet.
