Comments on: The Next Steps to Accelerate the Tectonic Shift in Mobile, Part 2 http://ifundvc.com/2008/12/08/the-next-steps-to-accelerate-the-tectonic-shift-in-mobile-part-2/ Insights Into the iPhone, iFund, and iFund Companies Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:08:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Symbian Blogger http://ifundvc.com/2008/12/08/the-next-steps-to-accelerate-the-tectonic-shift-in-mobile-part-2/#comment-133 Symbian Blogger Sat, 16 May 2009 21:08:13 +0000 http://ifundvc.com/?p=87#comment-133 I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

]]> By: Dharm http://ifundvc.com/2008/12/08/the-next-steps-to-accelerate-the-tectonic-shift-in-mobile-part-2/#comment-115 Dharm Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:02:03 +0000 http://ifundvc.com/?p=87#comment-115 Thanks for the "tech-tonic shift" series. All three problems are immensely important. For usage scalability, you mention two very important facilitating factors (1) We need a only couple of good platforms like Windows,Mac,Linux for PCs. iPhone, Android and may be WinMo/Symbian. But how to convince others to give up ? (2) This is absolutely must - powerful browsers for billions of low-end handsets. And I would add (3) Localized content - because English is not the primary language of most of these billion users. We also need a shift in funding strategy: instead of a $100M iFund for a bunch of companies, a <a href="http://www.iphonedev.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:inifund-could-outperform-ifund&catid=34:iphone&Itemid=56" title="How in.iFund can outperform iFund" rel="nofollow"> $1M in.iFund for a bunch of companies can do better</a>. You can call it micro-VC-ing because for the Indian example, most of the 300M users don't use data services due to the 3 reasons cited above. And there aren't REALLY appealing apps being developed/caught on due to multitude of platforms issue AND very importantly the crooked deployment mechanism provided by the carriers. But iPhone, despite of its high cost, has revolutionalized mobile landscape. An example of that is the launch of O2 Litmus dev platform. I am all tuned up for your next post on revenue scalability, because that is what "business" is all about :) Thanks for the “tech-tonic shift” series. All three problems are immensely important. For usage scalability, you mention two very important facilitating factors (1) We need a only couple of good platforms like Windows,Mac,Linux for PCs. iPhone, Android and may be WinMo/Symbian. But how to convince others to give up ? (2) This is absolutely must - powerful browsers for billions of low-end handsets. And I would add (3) Localized content - because English is not the primary language of most of these billion users.

We also need a shift in funding strategy: instead of a $100M iFund for a bunch of companies, a $1M in.iFund for a bunch of companies can do better. You can call it micro-VC-ing because for the Indian example, most of the 300M users don’t use data services due to the 3 reasons cited above. And there aren’t REALLY appealing apps being developed/caught on due to multitude of platforms issue AND very importantly the crooked deployment mechanism provided by the carriers. But iPhone, despite of its high cost, has revolutionalized mobile landscape. An example of that is the launch of O2 Litmus dev platform.

I am all tuned up for your next post on revenue scalability, because that is what “business” is all about :)

]]> By: Eric Santos http://ifundvc.com/2008/12/08/the-next-steps-to-accelerate-the-tectonic-shift-in-mobile-part-2/#comment-112 Eric Santos Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:24:04 +0000 http://ifundvc.com/?p=87#comment-112 I agree with you that there's a huge opportunity of creating mobile services for people in developing countries. As an entrepreneur in Brazil, we have a few services that already have a relevant traffic (+3mi mobile pageviews/month), and the iPhone only comes in the 20th position among the most acessed devices. What we see is that the mobile browsers are getting better, and it's becoming a viable option to prioritize mobile sites to deliver the services, as it reaches both the low-end handsets and the high-end ones (including iPhone), with a lot less portability burden. I agree with you that there’s a huge opportunity of creating mobile services for people in developing countries.

As an entrepreneur in Brazil, we have a few services that already have a relevant traffic (+3mi mobile pageviews/month), and the iPhone only comes in the 20th position among the most acessed devices.

What we see is that the mobile browsers are getting better, and it’s becoming a viable option to prioritize mobile sites to deliver the services, as it reaches both the low-end handsets and the high-end ones (including iPhone), with a lot less portability burden.

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