Mobile 2.0 not for now

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on October 5, 2007 at 10:49 AM

According to Antti Ohrling, founder of the ad-funded mobile company Blyk, Web 2.0 proponents shouldn’t believe that mobile will enjoy the same ‘Mobile 2.0’ phenomenon – not yet anyway.

"Internet web 2.0 people think that it [mobile usage] will become mobile 2.0," he said. "If you think that the mobile phone will be internet on the mobile then you are not right".

He pointed out that people are not using many mobile applications such as the Internet so far.

For users to truly embrace mobile Web, Internet applications must become free and easier to use.

"Access is one barrier and cost is another," he said.

So will 2008 be the year of the mobile?

Source: Media Guardian