Rod Montrose

As a developer of mobile applications, it's easy to see that the new Mobile Services can be beneficial in helping to create much better adoption of wireless applications. However, I feel that two huge barriers will have to be removed in order to make this a success. Americans still see the mobile phone as a personal device to keep in touch using vocal communications. They are so used to seeing a presentation format like the Web - full of graphics with an easy-to-use user interface. Like many others, I have been a developer since the "Green Screen" days. It was very easy for me to adapt to the limited text-based content currently available on mobile devices. However, for the average users it has not been well received. That's why I see Mobile Services as a big win/win for wireless. Making these applications more sophisticated and look more like the familiar desktop e... (more)