http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/10/31/phone-industry-becoming-like-the-pc-industry/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/10/31/phone-industry-becoming-like-the-pc-industry/#comment-3743 alan p Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:22:14 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/?p=1072#comment-3743 Nic, Nokia could well play the IBM role - but who will play Microsoft ;) Nic, Nokia could well play the IBM role – but who will play Microsoft

]]> http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/10/31/phone-industry-becoming-like-the-pc-industry/#comment-11673 alan p Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:22:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/?p=1072#comment-11673 Nic, Nokia could well play the IBM role - but who will play Microsoft ;) Nic, Nokia could well play the IBM role – but who will play Microsoft

]]> http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/10/31/phone-industry-becoming-like-the-pc-industry/#comment-3741 nic Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:05:16 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/?p=1072#comment-3741 Hey Alan - good question. I guess if you have to pick a single company I would say Nokia or open source (maybe driven by Google). Google will be peripheral and mostly interested in pushing search and their internet products, which makes them a little different to any of the web companies. Hey Alan – good question. I guess if you have to pick a single company I would say Nokia or open source (maybe driven by Google). Google will be peripheral and mostly interested in pushing search and their internet products, which makes them a little different to any of the web companies.

]]> http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/10/31/phone-industry-becoming-like-the-pc-industry/#comment-11672 nic Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:05:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/?p=1072#comment-11672 Hey Alan - good question. I guess if you have to pick a single company I would say Nokia or open source (maybe driven by Google). Google will be peripheral and mostly interested in pushing search and their internet products, which makes them a little different to any of the web companies. Hey Alan – good question. I guess if you have to pick a single company I would say Nokia or open source (maybe driven by Google). Google will be peripheral and mostly interested in pushing search and their internet products, which makes them a little different to any of the web companies.

]]> http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/10/31/phone-industry-becoming-like-the-pc-industry/#comment-3722 alan p Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:48:30 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/?p=1072#comment-3722 The PC industry analogy has been around quite awhile - a more appropriate mental model imho is to observe that Apple has "made" the Mobile Web possible with the iPhone as they did with Apple II in the PC industry. The question is who will play IBM/Microsoft in Mobile. Google? The PC industry analogy has been around quite awhile – a more appropriate mental model imho is to observe that Apple has “made” the Mobile Web possible with the iPhone as they did with Apple II in the PC industry. The question is who will play IBM/Microsoft in Mobile. Google?

]]> http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/10/31/phone-industry-becoming-like-the-pc-industry/#comment-11674 alan p Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:48:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/?p=1072#comment-11674 The PC industry analogy has been around quite awhile - a more appropriate mental model imho is to observe that Apple has "made" the Mobile Web possible with the iPhone as they did with Apple II in the PC industry. The question is who will play IBM/Microsoft in Mobile. Google? The PC industry analogy has been around quite awhile – a more appropriate mental model imho is to observe that Apple has “made” the Mobile Web possible with the iPhone as they did with Apple II in the PC industry. The question is who will play IBM/Microsoft in Mobile. Google?

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