GigaOM » Mobile. MobHappy. 11. It will become common for low-end devices for emerging markets to have color screens and cameras. 12. Myopic thinking, bad pricing and pointless services will continue keep mobile music from realizing its potential. I'm thinking this one is a slam dunk for Russell's year-end review next December, but I don't want to get too over-confident. Still, I can't help but feel this one's a little too easy to predict.
Alongside mobile TV, operators won't shut up about mobile music. But, like so many things, theire understanding and implementation of it is off-base. Operators want to put themselves at the middle of users' music experiences, and replace the iTunes Music Store, Napster, and any place else from which they buy music, online or off, and they think that offering dual-delivery downloads to both mobile and PC will help them accomplish this, and also justifies prices much higher than the typical online services. To blame this on mobile operators isn't fair. CommonTimes - news you choose. Needcoffee.com. Culturejammer Headquarters. Utne.com. - Exploding Cigar - Weird news from real sources. 9rules network.