Nickname: Mrrm

Review: Your article carries in its trail both Skype's sucessful business model and the future of the Internet: Symbian. This operating system is open source that allows carriers to personalize their user's handset GUIs, or "looks." Ok, it has got "only" about 10% of the world's mobile phones. But look deeper: It has got 80% of the 3G mobile market. That's where the Web is going. Deeper now. An arena of several billion devices, and growing. Much larger than the PC arena. Now it's my turn to look deeper. Into your mobile phone pricing and into Skype's qtr revenues. You pinpoint other start-ups, but due respect given to them, you always revert to Skype. That's because it is the standard, an instinctive benchmark. Skype is cross-OS platforms (Linux, PCs, Macs, and Symbian) and cross-features (chats, conference, file-sharing, landlines, mobiles, in-out). That's the point: Skype is a standard. Reminds you of MS on PCs, doesn´t it? Deeply interesting article, BW at its best.

Date reviewed: Oct 1, 2006 8:52 AM

Nickname: BeijingMan

Review: In China free/cheap calls by Skype are wanted but there is a regulatory risk--rules can be changed. Blog: http://beijingman.blogspot.com

Date reviewed: Sep 29, 2006 7:41 AM