Comments on: Revisiting My 2006 Predictions http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/12/15/revisiting-my-2006-predictions/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:43:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: 2007 Predictions at MobHappy http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/12/15/revisiting-my-2006-predictions/#comment-97781 2007 Predictions at MobHappy Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:33:23 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/12/15/revisiting-my-2006-predictions/#comment-97781 [...] As Russell promised, here are my predictions for 2007 following my stellar performance last year. You get all ten of mine in one go, though. Be sure to add your own predictions, or link to them elsewhere, in the comments. [...] [...] As Russell promised, here are my predictions for 2007 following my stellar performance last year. You get all ten of mine in one go, though. Be sure to add your own predictions, or link to them elsewhere, in the comments. [...]

]]> By: Ben http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/12/15/revisiting-my-2006-predictions/#comment-73417 Ben Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:25:55 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/12/15/revisiting-my-2006-predictions/#comment-73417 Just a comment about music. While admittedly it hasn't shown very highly (mainly because the networks are rushing into TV with the usual calm and clarity), it has actually grown massively within the networks. For example, SFR (Vodafone France) will have 3 million sales in France alone this year - not bad for a service that only formally launched in May. Orange is at a similar level in France and a bit less in the UK, and 3's music sales have quadrupled in a month thanks to some advertising. I can also hint at the rate of growth of sales is also extremely high - to the extent where, on current figures sales via the networks (in this one market) will overtake iTunes next year. Now if there are hundreds of thousands of tracks sold in one country each month by each of the major networks, is this a failure? Ben Just a comment about music. While admittedly it hasn’t shown very highly (mainly because the networks are rushing into TV with the usual calm and clarity), it has actually grown massively within the networks.

For example, SFR (Vodafone France) will have 3 million sales in France alone this year - not bad for a service that only formally launched in May. Orange is at a similar level in France and a bit less in the UK, and 3’s music sales have quadrupled in a month thanks to some advertising.

I can also hint at the rate of growth of sales is also extremely high - to the extent where, on current figures sales via the networks (in this one market) will overtake iTunes next year.

Now if there are hundreds of thousands of tracks sold in one country each month by each of the major networks, is this a failure?

Ben

]]> By: hip2b2 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/12/15/revisiting-my-2006-predictions/#comment-73266 hip2b2 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:20:44 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/12/15/revisiting-my-2006-predictions/#comment-73266 strange that mobile payments is still a mostly asian thing. what makes asia conducive to mpayments? strange that mobile payments is still a mostly asian thing. what makes asia conducive to mpayments?

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