http://www.mobile-zeitgeist.com/2009/11/25/apples-lustige-genehmigungsverfahren-stern/ Trends, Anwendungen und Gedanken zum Mobile Business Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:02:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.mobile-zeitgeist.com/2009/11/25/apples-lustige-genehmigungsverfahren-stern/comment-page-1/#comment-6113 Nico Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:47:50 +0000 http://www.mobile-zeitgeist.com/?p=6883#comment-6113 That is why the future of Mobile is not in some app-world controlled by the likes of ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile and Apple (or Nokia etc, don't matter), but on the open, now well-proven Mobile Internet. What is the point of making these guys even bigger up to a level where they will start charging exorbitant entry fees just to be "appoved"? To "protect" what they will call "their customers"?We experience all that already with shortcode numbers in the US, just to get a "campaign" live now means months of delay and multiple thousand $ to pass the "approval" of each carrier. Learn from the www history - this is not new stuff. That is why the future of Mobile is not in some app-world controlled by the likes of ATT, Verizon, T-Mobile and Apple (or Nokia etc, don't matter), but on the open, now well-proven Mobile Internet. What is the point of making these guys even bigger up to a level where they will start charging exorbitant entry fees just to be “appoved”? To “protect” what they will call “their customers”?We experience all that already with shortcode numbers in the US, just to get a “campaign” live now means months of delay and multiple thousand $ to pass the “approval” of each carrier. Learn from the www history – this is not new stuff.

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