Om caught me on the quoted point below. Guilty as charged.
He is also right about display technology, but when combined with the lack of true mobile web 2.0 even the best display technology is severely compromised. The new OLED displays that Samsung is rolling out are PDS (pretty damn sweet), especially when combined with 2 megapixel and better cameras.
One question: if everyone loves their phone as a mobile computing platform or even just a voice communication tool, why is it that the only significant business to develop for the market is ringtones? If my expectation that the mobile handset makers and carriers deliver a device that is something the 3rd party ISV community can build an industry on is representative of looking at the phone through PC goggles, then so be it.
One final note regarding the RAZR, the status symbol du jour among the techno elite crowd... even Om finds that Moto software is PDP (pretty damn poor).
Link: Om Malik’s Broadband Blog � Jeff’s mobile phone ideas, and mine… not quite the same.
When Jeff says, “Good handsets ain’t cheap, it’s pretty easy to spend $500 for a top line phone that has way less utility than a $500 personal computer,” he is still looking at it a phone from the PC eyes.
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