I just read Randall Howard’s post: Early Adopters versus Business Models: Shooting Yourself in the Foot?
My liked the end when Randall raises the issue of mobile data rates and the inevitable dampening effect it has on Canadian (and American) mobile software development companies – startups especially.
The problem is more pronounced in Canada but the US has the same structural flaws – its just so much more pronounced here due to lesser competition, higher complacency, and more monopolistic tendencies. But, in either case we are effectively giving up on wireless innovation in North America if we don’t have a startup ecosystem and fertile early markets to try out products and business models. The only thing I see in the mobile space that is fertile these days is the bullshit in the ads.
