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Continue reading Best-of-breed vs mobile application suites.
As seen in Forbes: Ultimate Showdown: Microsoft Vs. Google June 2, 2008
As a start-up focused on delivering services to the next generation mobile Internet devices, we are constantly amazed at the failure of Microsoft to repeat its Windows and Office success in the mobile world. And the problem is just that: Microsoft has a history of seeing all opportunities within the narrow definition of its existing world and past wins. Repeatedly they have seen new devices, for example, as simply "little PCs." This has led to a long litany of disappointments in handhelds that will repeat unless a new approach is realized.
Continue reading How Microsoft Can Succeed In Mobile.
In response to Antony Brydon's Post: Best-of-breed vs mobile application suites:
I would never have thought to compare our system to a portal. I don't like portals. They're closed little worlds in which someone else decides what you can or cannot see. This is exactly the opposite of what we are providing at LightPole. We are building enabling technology that allows a much wider variety of content and applications to be delivered to the mobile phone. You could think about it as bringing web 2.0 to mobile (versus previous attempts at bringing "the web" to the phone). Let me explain.