The mobile industry is going through it's own 'AOL phase'

Very perceptive this.

Link: Wireless industry going through its AOL phase | One More Thing – CNET News.com

It’s the mid-1990s for the mobile industry: lots of walled gardens, lots of fragmentation, and lots of promise.

The iPhone is leading the way.

It won’t take much for this mobile industry to catch a different wave and before we know it, the pain of expensive texts and stupid per minute call prices will be behind us. And applications will be easy to deploy. Wooo.