Let The Mobile Application Wars Begin
Lucky us. Finally the mobile applications are getting the attention they deserve and no matter who loses among the giants, the end users will be the winner. Google, Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft have invaded the mobile phone and application area. Apple of course was first to the market with their market disruptive iPhone. Google has created buzz with their android software stack and the $10 million (see details here) award announcements. See Brough Turner’s blog post about how Google bypassed Java’s licensing by using Dalvik VM.
What about Yahoo and Microsoft? They are playing catch-up.
The reaction from Microsoft was interesting. Microsoft played down the initial announcements and said that the perception that mobile applications are not available or cannot be developed are incorrect. Well, this is the classic windows mobile vs. linux war and I promise it will get very interesting and intense.
Yahoo is busy signing agreements to provide mobile Internet-search service to nine Asian mobile operators, as the company races to bring email, mapping and photo-sharing services to cellphones. With this move Yahoo’s mobile Internet services could potentially cover about 40% of Asia’s mobile phone subscribers, he said. Yahoo expects the global mobile Internet search market to grow to between $4 billion and $16 billion by 2011. More about this deal.
The Asian mobile operators that signed search deals with Yahoo are Aircel Ltd., BPL Mobile Communications Ltd., and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. in India; PT Excelcomindo Pratama, PT Hutchison CP Telecom Indonesia and PT Indonesian Satellite Corp. in Indonesia; DiGi.com Bhd in Malaysia; StarHub Ltd. in Singapore; and PCCW Ltd. in Hong Kong.
Yahoo will share advertising revenue with the mobile operators. Yahoo now has 16 mobile Internet search partnerships in Asia. In June, it signed deals with Globe Telecom Inc. in the Philippines, Idea Cellular Ltd. in India, LG Telecom Co. Ltd. in South Korea, Maxis Communications Bhd. in Malaysia, PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel) in Indonesia and Taiwan Mobile Co.
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