Comments on: I’ve Been to the Year 2000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/16/ive-been-to-the-year-2000/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: sam http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/16/ive-been-to-the-year-2000/comment-page-1/#comment-2406 sam Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:23:56 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/16/ive-been-to-the-year-2000/#comment-2406 I actually used the SMS service over the weekend when I was shopping for a DVD Recorder - it wasnt bad in the sense that I realised how much I could have potentially got ripped off for in a shop on tottenham court road - plus the expression on the shop-keepers face was priceless when I showed him the text ... "Oh great another company trying to eat away at my margins"... was what he was probably thinking.. haha I actually used the SMS service over the weekend when I was shopping for a DVD Recorder – it wasnt bad in the sense that I realised how much I could have potentially got ripped off for in a shop on tottenham court road – plus the expression on the shop-keepers face was priceless when I showed him the text … “Oh great another company trying to eat away at my margins”… was what he was probably thinking.. haha

]]> By: Jon Beverley http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/16/ive-been-to-the-year-2000/comment-page-1/#comment-2263 Jon Beverley Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:15:10 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/16/ive-been-to-the-year-2000/#comment-2263 No, that was my fault. No, that was my fault.

]]> By: Robert Hamilton http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/16/ive-been-to-the-year-2000/comment-page-1/#comment-2241 Robert Hamilton Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:11:57 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/03/16/ive-been-to-the-year-2000/#comment-2241 Whilst I am, it's true to say, a regular performer on the UK stand-up comedy circuit, I also work for a leading mobile network operator. I guess you might call that a double-play... For the avoidance of doubt, it was neither creating a start-up that didn't survive (although some of its best applications did - see Argos' mobile portfolio for examples of real world mobile shopping turning over large amounts of money) nor working for an MNO that motivated me to become a comic. Whilst I am, it’s true to say, a regular performer on the UK stand-up comedy circuit, I also work for a leading mobile network operator. I guess you might call that a double-play…

For the avoidance of doubt, it was neither creating a start-up that didn’t survive (although some of its best applications did – see Argos’ mobile portfolio for examples of real world mobile shopping turning over large amounts of money) nor working for an MNO that motivated me to become a comic.

]]>