(2007-09-12) Parker Broken Mobile Ecosystem

Andrew Parker on how the Mobile EcoSystem is broken by the TelCo-s. The best mobile services I've seen so far are services that are not mobile-only. They are services that use the strengths of the PC-based web (such as a big resolution screen and qwerty keyboard input) to handle the heavy lifting that cellphones suck at (like user registration). Then, they build a mobile interface to their site to enable smaller pieces of the service remotely. FaceBook does this well. So does Twitter.