Mobile Internet

In the article Email, Scale-Free Networks, and the Mobile Internet, Rheingold talks about a researcher who claims the usage of Email and SMS in mobile network and the distinction of the two. I agree with him that this industry is going to change. In my opinion, more and more Internet applications will go to mobile. Four years ago, WAP was hot and being proved as a hype. But at that time, the data speed of mobile network was not as fast as today's, the WAP applications were lack and the mobile technology even the market was less mature than today's. Now everything is different, we may use mobile to send picture to Flickr, write mblog by using mobile, search websites on mobile and Skype the wireless people using Internet. Tons of Internet applications are in relation to the mobile and more are coming. That's why I always believe the mobile Internet may take the place of traditional Internet someday. The day is not faraway.

The example in Email, Scale-Free Networks, and the Mobile Internet may discover the potential of using Internet applicatioins on mobile.

... sending an SMS message costs 7 eurocents, and if you send the same message
to 1000 people, the cost multiplies one thousand fold. In the case of e-mail,
one message on a GPRS network is 1 cent, and it does not cost you any more if
the message has a thousand recipients.

No matter how advanced the technology is. What customers usually concern about is 'Is it useful to me?', 'Is it cheaper than other service?'. Once we can give both the answers 'abolutely yes' with confidence, we've got a key to the success of our business.