In the presentation I gave at Mobile Monday Austin this week on messaging, one of the key points I tried to make (and hopefully the audience took away) was that things like MMS and SMS aren’t just P2P messaging applications, they’re platforms that allow for other applications.
Mark Donovan of M:Metrics (who coincidentally I interview this week for my next Gizmodo column) has posted a blog entry illustrating this point, via an anecdote about a road trip in an RV. If I had to pick just one sentence out, it would be this: “I only care about your technology if it makes my world better when I need it to make my world better.” Technology is great, but it’s real power is as an enabler for compelling — and ultimately useful — applications.
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