Comments on: The Battle for Mobile Starts – for Real http://www.mikolas.net/blog/2008/06/15/the-battle-for-mobile-starts-for-real/ Technology, Science and Business United ::: A Blog by Mikko Hämäläinen Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:26:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anders http://www.mikolas.net/blog/2008/06/15/the-battle-for-mobile-starts-for-real/comment-page-1/#comment-1420 Anders Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:57:14 +0000 http://www.mikolas.net/blog/?p=5#comment-1420 My guess is that Google will take it all, why? Google will be able to use multi-sided business models, charging developers, content providers, advertisers, and brand owners, for access to its users. It will lower the prices for voice and data until it is for free for the end-user, and paid for by actors wanting access to the same. The physical device will increasingly become a commodity screen and online services will replace built-in programs, and then you have Google Apps, Maps and everything else from Google in your hand... for free. //Anders www.tbmdb.com - TheBusinessModelDatabase My guess is that Google will take it all, why?

Google will be able to use multi-sided business models, charging developers, content providers, advertisers, and brand owners, for access to its users. It will lower the prices for voice and data until it is for free for the end-user, and paid for by actors wanting access to the same. The physical device will increasingly become a commodity screen and online services will replace built-in programs, and then you have Google Apps, Maps and everything else from Google in your hand… for free.

//Anders

http://www.tbmdb.com – TheBusinessModelDatabase

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