This guest post is written by Vic Gundotra, Vice President of Engineering for Google’s mobile and developer products. (Prior to Google, he spent 15 years at Microsoft, most recently as their GM of Platform Evangelism.) Vic credits his now-7-year-old with forecasting the importance of mobile data access, and now carries at least 4 phones at all times. Fortunately, he had two kids before adopting the possibly-prophylactic habit.
Focus on the mobile user, and all else will follow
Simpler data, better browsers, and a smoother experience
Today the mobile industry finds itself in a unique position to do right by its users:
Worldwide phone penetration continues to climb at a break-neck pace, with over 4 billion mobile subscribers at last count.1 (In comparison, the PC industry is forecasted to see its sharpest unit decline in history.2) Prevailing economic conditions will accelerate this trend, as users consolidate pricey communication services into cost-effective, all-in-one mobile devices.3 And for the first time ever, half of all new connections to the internet will come from a phone in 2009.4
Google’s mobile traffic reflects these milestones — having quintupled since 20075 — and it underscores users’ appetite for mobile data services. But as a community of operators, device manufacturers and software providers, we continue to get in their way. In short, and as a general rule, we make it too costly, too unfamiliar, and too difficult to do anything beyond voice calls.
In reply I offer up three suggestions: simpler data plans, better web browsers, and a smoother on-device experience. And in each case I’ll use Google traffic numbers as a proxy for total internet usage and user happiness.
Disclaimer: As a Google employee using internal data to carry the weight of this article, I owe it to the reader to lay bare my economic incentives: the company I work for has a financial interest in the broad and sweeping adoption of the Internet-as-we-know-it. Indeed, more internet users leads to increased web usage, which often leads to more Google searches and downstream ad clicks. I use Google data because it’s what I know best, and because it reinforces my industry-facing remarks, but make no mistake: I’m fundamentally interested in what’s good for the mobile internet. It just so happens that this is also good for Google. With that said, I hope you’ll find value in the words and data that follow.
Flat is the new phat
Consider MetroPCS, a regional carrier in the United States with just over 5 million subscribers on their 2.5G CDMA network. Over the past year, their Google search volume grew over 2.5x more quickly than another global carrier with 10 times as many users, and a 3G network.6
Metro’s “secret” is a free month of web access at signup, with the option of flat-rate, unlimited data thereafter.7 As a result nearly half of Metro’s subscribers use the web on a regular basis. (It’s also worth mentioning that MetroPCS was recently recognized for excellence in customer satisfaction.8)
In contrast, many operators subject users to a labyrinthine set of data options, from pay-as-you-go to daily caps with significant overage charges. Now, can you imagine paying your at-home internet provider for every page load? Or needing to know the size of a website before visiting it? Or managing your monthly download quota across your entire household? It’s simply not practical, and it’s all the same internet, so why do we treat mobile users as second-class citizens? Case and point: my colleague’s January phone bill contained 27 pages of itemized data charges, spelled out in excruciating detail.9
Unless we declare flat the new phat — and soon — I fear Occam will do something terrible with his razor.
They want it all, they want it now
Users “get” the web, and they’ve known for over 10 years that the browser is the thing that takes you there. Likewise, more and more of today’s killer applications are the Amazons and Facebooks of the world, not software that you download to a local machine. So it should come as no surprise that mobile users want phones (and browsers) that put a fully-featured internet in their pocket.
For example: the availability of a modern web browser explains why iPhone and Android users — just 13% of the high-end market10 — represent nearly 50% of Google’s smartphone traffic worldwide.11
Similarly, users of the T-Mobile G1 and its newer WebKit browser search Google 20 times more often than Nokia Series 60 users.12
Both data indicate that it’s about usage — not just units — and this trend will continue unabated with more efficient JavaScript engines, and more sophisticated HTML5-compliant browsers.
The simple truth is that mobile users have wanted fast and full web access all along. Consider two quick facts about Google search behavior: the “tail” of PC and iPhone queries is significantly longer than that of feature phone queries;
and the gap in query diversity between desktop and high-end mobile devices is shrinking.13 People want all the world’s information on their most personal of personal computers, and we need to offer browsers that scratch this quintessential itch.
“One web will triumph.”14 Users want all of it. And they want it now.
Friction is fugly
In the early days of mobile search, customer feedback was clear: “I can’t find Google on my phone.” And in hindsight it makes sense: unintuitive device menus and preference panes mandated 20+ mind-numbing clicks just to locate portal content15 — nevermind “off net” sites like Google. This Frankenstein’s monster of OEM, carrier, and 3rd party software made it impossible to discover — much less enjoy — mobile data services, and showed a complete disregard for users’ on-device experience.
Thanks to an influx of smarter phones, many mobile users can now reach 3rd party software with a single tap or click. And in Google’s case, this desktop-like experience increases search traffic by many orders of multitude.16 
Why? Because it provides a frictionless onramp to search results. Likewise, and prior to its v5.0 release in February 2009, Google Earth saw more activations on the day of its iPhone launch than any other day in the product’s history. Why? Because the iPhone’s App Store and on-screen layout make it easy to find, try and access mobile data services.
And herein lies the rub: users appreciate well-written software, but ease of use and on-device navigability are critical preconditions for usage. (After all, if you hide a tree in a forest, who cares whether someone hears it fall? Chances are they’ll never find it anyway.) The proliferation of app stores is a positive step in this direction, as are efforts on the part of OEMs to give developers unfettered access to low-level functionality.
We have to surprise and delight users with fast and fluid interfaces. Friction is just fugly.
- Sent from my Android phone, with a WebKit browser and an unlimited data plan
- ITU, 2009
- Gartner, 2009
- comScore, 2008
- eMarketer, 2008 and 2009
- Google internal
- Google internal
- MetroPCS, 2009
- J.D. Power, 2008
- January phone bill, redacted
- Canalys, 2008
- Google internal
- Google internal
- “Computers and iPhones and Mobile Phones, oh my!”, 2009
- Opera, 2008
- http://www.biz-lib.com/products/ZMOMX.html
- Google internal
excellent analysis
just one point on “Similarly, users of the T-Mobile G1 and its newer WebKit browser search Google 20 times more often than Nokia Series 60 users” : it is still normal with the result on search UI
Christophe
Problem with mobile is hardly any ads can be shown. Where’s the revenue other than google’s newuser-misleading “sponsored links”?
Instead, public pc’s like cyber cafe or shared(with family or friends)-PC’s are the future. Cyber cafe’s to socialize ;)
Cyber cafes…. For penniless travelers in transit. Yep, sounds like a winner to me!
Many customers hate to be charged for web-access on the phone, because carrier charge more when they can afford, if customer looking for a coupon to save 1-2$ on groceries, carrier charged 4.99 for web access plan, in this case customer choose not to use web plan, or they will use “flat rate” provider like Metro PCS, or provider with free “data plan”.
When I encounter problems at the bench, I use my computer to learn from other watchmakers. ,
Perhaps the single best blog entry I’ve read this year! Seriously. Great relevant facts. Thanks for sharing. Usability is the single most important part of getting mobile web-thirsty users online. Thanks for this.
I agree with the author’s main point, and it’s great he’s got some citations, but do we really need citations and explanations as to why the current (or, perhaps, most previous) generation of mobile internet sucks?
I’ve had a cell phone for 11 years or so now, and I’ve ‘browsed’ the web on my various phones less than 20 times during those 11 years. Why so little usage? Because it’s slow, the experience is horrible, and it’s damn expensive.
We need cheaper, faster, better, and we need all three.
Apple’s iPhone obviously showed the first steps to be taken, and others are now (finally?!?) taking notice that perhaps people might want to browse the web with a real browser. MS’ mobile story has had a mobile IE for some time now, but I’ve not used it enough to know how accurate or smooth a representation of the web it gave. We now need mobile Flash, Silverlight and other stuff to more closely replicate ‘regular’ browsing on mobile devices.
I’m going to say that the mobile web is distinctly different than that which you wish to replicate. Mobile web access is about exploration, entertainment and specific actions. As Vic notes, it’s about on-device experience. I rarely miss the Flash stuff that websites tend to offer aside from wanting the page to load visually. More importantly, I want the information that I am requesting.
The iPhone is an excellent example of a tight experience couple with the ability to define web interactions through applications. As a fan of widgets, such apps tend to be in that same family. The web without a browser…
You’re absolutely right. Remember back in the days when websites were replicas of traditional media and not interactive at all. You have the same problem with mobile websites.
It is simply not enough to copy your website one on one to a mobile version. I, for instance, do not like to have a desktop version of a website on my mobile because that means I have to scroll and navigate more.
On my mobile, I want access to information with the least effort. Visual aspects do not matter. I would choose a Facebook app (with limited features, but better navigation) over the full Facebook website every day.
Its time to have wimax module built in to the cellphones, to have access on wimax network not mobile..even if its 3G..just check where you are use your phone browser? coffee shop, store, work..etc..
around those areas wi-fi, wimax..etc…i think it will be much better if phone get connected to fast and reliable network automatically..
Dmitri
what we need is no contracts from major carriers. We were going to give a choice of iphone/droid for our http://styleguidance.com style event, but the fact that the winner would be stuck with a contract dissuaded us
I love Mobile life. The world will soon be exclusively Mobile. Are you taking part in this growth, or are you falling behind? Readjust your business model beforehand, rather than being a follower, lead the way! great post!!!
What an absurd comment. The world will never be exclusively mobile.
For some people in Countries like India, China, and Thailand, they only have access to the Internet via Mobile phones. Later this year there will be a new iPod Touch released with a larger screen than previous models. This product will spawn the creation of some of the most advanced Smart Phones the world has ever seen, potentially mobilizing a huge percentage of Internet users. After we are all dead, ie when our kids kids are our age, they will all have Mobile Technology that allows them to access to the Internet, manage finances, locate products/services. Life will be governed by Mobile technologies.
I always wonder why the people on Techcrunch with the least productive things to say leave comments without a website to link too. Lewis Buckley sounds like a name that you made up on the spot. Go back to your 9 to 5 job and leave the pioneering to people like me and Michael Arrington, you fool.
“For some people in Countries like India, China, and Thailand, they only have access to the Internet via Mobile phones.”
That’s not the truth, at least for China, because I live there. Most people access the Internet via PC rather than mobile phone in China. Very rare people use mobile phone to access Internet, if there are some, usually, they can access Internet via PC in the same time.
“For some people in Countries like India, China, and Thailand, they only have access to the Internet via Mobile phones.”
Not at all true. Most of the people now are shifting from dial-up to broadband on desktops. But mobile carriers are far behind in allowing internet connectivity – rates are high and the service is offered in few regions only. Most of the people do not have a blackberry, iphone or android also doesn’t help.
Though the government is trying to offer farmers access to crop prices, weather and all through internet via cellphone, so this condition could change very soon.
“The world will never be exclusively mobile.”
True. Only 95% mobile.
I will be that the web becomes heavily skewed towards mobile. Remember, once many of the sites move to mobile focused incarnations, the more this feeds the change. Many sites, such as those for restaurants, should never be full sites anyway. Rarely are they supported regularly, and often don’t provide the most basic information concisely.
i agree, it may never be exclusively mobile. but mobile lifestyle is on it’s way to dominate the world, and if you prefer to deny it then it’s your loss.
Adrian.
I earn enough money from my ’9 to 5′ job I don’t need to link spam.
Your an idiot. You make no sense. And your website sucks.
A totally self-serving post by a Google executive, which quotes the word “Google” far too much. Obviously users all want free access to the internet. The phone companies will figure this out soon.
By the way, we as users actually don’t want to “go to Google” at all. We just want to run applications that make our lives easier. If Google really thinks Google is a destination in itself, the company is ready for a fall. I wish Techcrunch wouldnt publish posts like this.
Did you even read the complete post? I’m sure you missed the disclaimer…
If you’re reading TechCrunch, you’re not a typical user. There are vast numbers of people in the world for whom “Internet Explorer”=”Google”=”the web”=”the internet”. It’s perfectly plausible to believe that what these people say they want is to “go to Google,” and this is how I read Vic’s statement. You may believe these people are idiots, and some of them certainly are, but the whole point of this post is how mobile internet is becoming available to them, so you can’t pretend they don’t exist.
And yes, this post doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know, but it’s perfectly fine for execs in the industry to do research and write blog posts quoting the numbers they find. Confirming the obvious through data is good. (Though you can take issue with some of the specific metrics, as other commenters have.)
Interesting read. Thanks, Vic. I think the first example with MetroPCS isn’t all that important..a good example of the US mobile industry compared to the RoW. RoW data adoption is far ahead of US adoption, so I don’t think the data itself is all that relevant (everyone knows US data adoption lags). However, your general point of consumers wanting easy, seamless internet access on their cell phones makes sense. Glad to see you reference Opera’s State of the Mobile Web report. (Disclaimer – I used to work for Opera)
I know Vic primarily has access to Google data, but the “G1 users hit google search 20x more than S60 users” stat is blatant measurement bias… the G1 is a phone that is marketed and configured as “with Google.” Sorry but google.com is not the same as “the mobile internet.” Clearly Vic has stats for the iPhone, let’s see them on this point?
Last year Google announced that iPhone usage was 50 times higher than any other phone.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=1316
Of course after I asked this question I remembered Google is the default search on the iPhone as well.
Anyhow, I guess we should conclude the browser on the iPhone is 50x / 20x = 2.5x better than the Android browser?
The other point to make re: the G1 is it is marketed to people who are more likely to use the mobile Web anyhow. When the G1 or phones running “full” browsers in general are reaching the same demographics as S60 then we’ll see what the real effect of the browser is.
“Forcasted” is not a word. This post needed an ed to get rid of redundant ‘ed’s
To reduce the phugly phriction, I guess Google will have to share ad revenues with the mobile carriers to help build out their capital intensive infrastructure. After all everyone wants to delight customers with flat rate data service. Question is who pays for it and who reaps the benefit.
Mobile is next wave in Wireless internet world. Brands must consider mobile not just as advertising medium, rather as medium to connect their audience. Google has always been trend setter and mobile is no exception.
As rightly said in the article, next wave is not of apps or softwares you download to your devices. Next wave is integrated apps e.g. Facebook apps and web based apps that connects your audience more easily and efficiently.
Good post,
Now please get back to the F****G office tell your F****G colleagues to F****G allow my F****G E71 to F****G sync with my F****G Google calendar.
Thanks.
+1
Why they didn’t allow this from day one is still mystery for me
Excellent analysis! This is why I am a daily reader of Techcrunch!
Keep it up! Now do a penetration and market cap and growth analysis on online backup and storage trends!
amazing data
I m still waiting for the day when mobile app stores will close and developers will switch developing ordinary web apps for the mobile browser.
Nice one. Now if only those phone providers would read this kind of post…
umm, Symbian now uses WebKit for the S60 browser, but unfortunately that still won`t make MNOs offer unlimited data plans for the phones :(
Also worth mentioning is that Google actually pays mobile browser companies to use Google search E.g. Opera Mini and Skyfire.
Speaking of Opera Mini, with so many million Opera Mini users worldwide why don’t we see them in any of these stats?
The stats mentioned (11) are internal Google stats but it says it is worldwide I seriously doubt that iPhone nor the G1 has higher stats worldwide than S60 or Opera Mini considering they are only available in a few countries whereas countries like Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Ukraine and several African nations have a larger segment of mobile web users than the US.
Here are some link to other mobile webstats by browser type as well as handset type:
By mobile platform:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/mobile-phones.aspx?qprid=55&sample=31#
By browser type:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/mobile-phones.aspx?qprid=59
From AdMob 2009:
- Nokia – 30%
- Apple – 18%
- Motorola – 10%
- SE – 10%
- Samsung – 9%
- LG – 4%
- RIM – 3%
- HTC – 2%
- Palm – 1%
- Kyocera – 1%
- Other – 11%
wow, very interesting
Thanks, Vic, for showing that Google has caught up to the mobile industry circa 1998 (or even earlier). Mobile users have been wanting these things that your company apparently has just discovered since around the time it came out of the garage – it’s simply a widespread phenomena now instead of being limited to overseas or small domestic usability or market studies of mobile products of the time.
Best of all, at least Google is in a position to do something about it with all those $$$, because previous companies that should’ve been able to clearly either didn’t care or failed (ie the carriers and OEMs and even Microsoft), so it genuinely warms my heart that they’ve finally gotten a clue. Apple, too, btw.
FYI – the web browser is the least important of the 3 seemingly-age-old aspects listed (most important: simple data plans followed by usable experience), it’s a means to an end, and if there was a better, more holistic/integrated way to access the Internet, users would drop the browser on a mobile device in a heartbeat. Look at how Apple started to blur the lines with web apps and their main menu.
Mobile internet telephony will be the big thing to happen to the web world in near future. There are scores of mobile internet users now. With more simpler and smoother mobile browsers slowly and slowly the internet usage on mobiles is going to pickup in both India and China. US and EU are already seeing this transition. The emphasis as pointed out in this post shall be mainly on simplicity which will bring in faster downloading and richer web experience.
There are a few misleading pieces of information in this article. Its true there are over 4billion phone subscribers but the number that matters is the number of mobile users using the Internet and this is 1.5Billion users (at its highest estimate).
Also perhaps the reason why google users prefer to use the full web to see search results might be more to do with the ineptitutde of google mobile proxy which is used with feature phones.
Great global stats. The mobile war is alive and kicking. Thanks !
Vic needs to include all mobile stats not just iphone.
It appears Vic has brought with him from MS the culture of mis-information…..sad.
excellent post. but it bodes ill for google if their management is thinking like bloggers and analysts rather than decision making leaders.
Interesting stats…but it’s not just about usage, it’s about monetization! Apple may be punching above their weight on Google searches but data points to the fact that there is a lot more monetization from the Nokia and other manufacturers.
Take a look at this post by Ray Anderson:
iPhone:not the only game in town! http://tinyurl.com/dyvqmy
Great guest post. Some interesting statistics about mobile users.
To Vic’s three good suggestions on what operators need to do to catalyze more innovative data usage of mobile platforms (simpler data plans, better web browsers, and a smoother on-device experience), I would add a critical fourth element: more regulatory restraint on the part of public officials.
The fact is that it is will not be operators alone who uniquely will hold in their hands how consumers can most effectively put the mobile devices to their most innovative and productive uses.
Legislative and regulatory bodies both in Washington DC and at the state and even local levels will be able to play positive roles by advocating and enabling policies focused on investment, innovation, and above all regulatory common sense.
Vic may be right when he notes that operators, ” … make it too costly, too unfamiliar, and too difficult to do anything beyond voice calls.” But overly zealous regulatory bodies also can have the same negative impact on the growth and evolution of mobile usage. Let’s all do what we can to avoid both bad outcomes and focus instead on enabling innovation, flexibility, and consumer-focused solutions, not just technically and operationally, but also at the regulatory level.
i love the superscribes…. how do i superscribe in the comments ?
Google will subsidize phone companies to get everybody keeping their information with google, and using google.
Google isn’t a search engine, it is a data mining company. The more data you give them, the more valuable the information about you is when they sell it to anybody buying.
Anybody that thinks google “lives off ads” is living a fantasy.
Why? What do you think they live off of…
(from the Google annual report) “How We Generate Revenue”
Advertising revenues made up 97% of our revenues for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008 and 99% for the three and six months ended June 30, 2007. We derive most of our additional revenues from offering internet ad serving and management services to advertisers and ad agencies, the license of our web search technology and the license of our search solutions to enterprises.
the important is the user.
Users want unlimited data at a low, fixed price and user interfaces that don’t reflect the 1990′s. Wow, I would never have guessed! ;-)
The real rub is when you take a gander at the service provider side of the coin. [Yeah, an annoying habit.] MO’s all saw what happened when landline ISP’s started competing; a race to the bottom in pricing. Good for the consumer, not so helpful in keeping companies in business. So there is little reason to expect the MO’s to do the same thing.
This is where I had hoped to see Google help us all. When the last major spectrum auction was going on I had my fingers crossed that Google would buy it and turn it into an unlimited data free-for-all under the premise that ad sales would eventually pay for the move and add another zero to the end of the stock price. This would have the added benefit of pounding the current MO’s into the ground; something I believe most of us could enjoy.
Alas, like the script writing of Robot Chicken, the story went in the predictable, mundane direction instead. So I am left to agree with the OP on another point…good think my employer supplies me with a couple of SIM cards with unlimited data plans attached.
Referring to the graphic in figure 3, ‘% of Google Smartphone traffic by platform’ and some claims that are made based on it, I am wondering on some points:
1. Why is the Android wave (Blue one) almost flat?
2. Isn’t Android wave thinner than those for Blackberry or Symbian or Windows Mobile?
3. If we are talking about platform’s contribution to the traffic, the graphic suggests that Android’s contributions is only better than that of Palm which has the least contribution. Is it justified to piggyback upon iPhone and claim that together iphone and Android platforms make up for more than 50% of the traffic. That way we can combine almost any platform with iPhone and make that statement.
4. If we talk about specific devices that contribute the traffic than Android’s contribution is definitely respectable. With just a few devices sporting Android, it is still able to garner good amount of traffic. Thats certainly worth a praise. Not otherwise.
Out of MYvosi LLC, comes the face of Web 3.0, Maurice Valentino. Valentino never thought that out of his humble past that he would soon be the creator and innovator of the newest web technology that positions him to become the next Internet billionaire.
The Firm United LLC, which is a holding company for several companies including MYvosi LLC which houses Valentino’s genius creation, Myvosi Web 3.0, the wave of the future.
Myvosi Web 3.0 is a media/data exchange tool, a search engine that gains knowledge of the user the more it is used. It can be used for networking, it offers the most up to date encryption for product being sold/personal information and has a virtual mall with a presence of 250,000 national and international vendors in contract.In addition to your own personal virtual assistant that controls your every experience desire.
“It will challenge us and move us into the future now,” says Valentino. The site offers human deductive reasoning and inference. “Imagine a machine with personality that’s proactive,sounds like efficiency to me.” states The Face Of Web 3.0(Maurice Valentino).
Valentino also went on to explain in more detail what to expect from MYvosi LLC and Web 3.0.”MYvosi Web 3.0 is the successful marriage of artificial intelligence and the web. In addition we want to be efficient not only from an economical and an environmental perspective but also from an individual and technological perspective. Web 1.0 was for all to read, Web 2.0 was for all write and Web 3.0 is and will be for all to innovate.” personalize your future, live out your potential. Myvosi web 3.0 allows you to search by sentences not eliminating the keyword based search but expanding on it. You can type in sentences and in turn it would return relevant results and suggest other content related to your search terms. You can ask your browser questions such as “where can i go for lunch” and it will provide you, based on your likes & dislikes something suitable (human deductive Reasoning).”Many fear that this detailed information about them will be exposed, but it is the exact opposite,” says Valentino. Your likes and dislike /personal information are not publicized they are on an encrypted network using the same encryption’s as the one used by the major banks in the world(ex. the TLS and the high 128 bit encryption). This graduates the common concept of the current web, typing in the same information and getting the same information. What’s now offered is a unique individual experience on the web tailored to fit you personality. Myvosi Web 3.0 consist partially of “mashup” applications. An example would be looking up restaurants and have it tie in to another application(GPS) giving you place and directions. Myvosi Web 3.0 has the most intelligent software agent at the click of a button. You can share data files securely and efficiently without the threat of viral and other harmful applications (worms,Trojan horses,malware,etc) infecting your computer.A quote from Thomas Chille” For manifesting a web 3.0, we need a web 3.0. We need a real evolutionary shift in the perception of the web by the end users. Much like the paradigm shift in involving the user generated content for web 2.0.” Its purpose is to educate, create, and innovate the end User’s experience of the Web’s resources. It is the web’s Advanced Version Of the 3 dimensional giant”Second Life,”but Extremely user efficient. The applauding moment was simply this stated by The Face Of Web 3.0 “Most importantly Web 3.0 Is all of you. It isn’t the dominating player with the most Bank. It is about you (the user). We as individuals craft web 3.0. we all have a major role in its implementation” says Valentino. This is just an overview what Myvosi Web 3.0 offers. The detailed version would require a 1,000 paged text book and far superceeds what was said today. Myvosi Web 3.0 launch date is in the summer (July) of 2010.
Special Acknowledgments:
*Barack Obama in his spirited aura of change
*Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau who created the World Wide Web at CERN
*James Hendler An artificial Intelligence Researcher
*Nigel Richard Shadbolt founder of the Web Science Research Initiative
*Ora Lassila a Finnish computer scientist
*Computer Science University of Southampton
*Artificial intelligence department @ University of Edinburgh
*Eric Schmidt CEO Of Google
*Doug Lenat Computer Scientist Ceo of Cycorp
*Kevin Kelly Great Mind
If I left anyone out you are not forgotten, but for the sake of time, many more I give thanks to. Thank you all for your research , your time invested in making us better and more efficient economically and environmentally, America and the World thanks you.
A few pioneers of Green Energy who deserve recognition
*Scott mcnealy co founder of sun micro systems say that technology of the Internet is the most planetary efficient way of conducting business
*John Doer partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers
says that Germany is the largest buyer of solar cells around the world
“These are point that should be noticed and implemented in our economic and environmental strategy and conducive to like such recovery” Says Valentino
*MIT chemist Daniel Nocera
*Thomas Hinderling innovator who wants to build solar island to make us more efficient.
*Texas oilmen like T. Boone Pickens started pushing alternative energy
*Steven Chu head the Department of Energy
just to name a few.
“These are a few of the people who have inspired me to offer the Next generation ready platform. I look at their stories and their desire to innovate and to make better. These are things and mindsets I was conceived in. These Great minds gave me the foundation to start myvosi and change the future. So I personally feel they deserve a great deal of recognition” Says The Face Of Web 3.0 Maurice Valentino
The reports shows that mobile phones now a days are in a must have list of every one, whether it is a school going kid or a Sr. Executive Officer. Mobile phones are no longer known as a medium of communication these days, but are treated as a fashion statement.
I disagree. Mobile phones are not fashion, they are necessity, especially in places that lack the infrastructure for landlines. Internet-wise, anything that can be done w/o home internet is great.
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What is stopping most mobile carriers from adopting the Metro PCS model? I think they would win so much on customer loyalty and easily could find a way to monetize… not doing it will only hurt them later.
Good question. I think it’s pretty clear the iPhone couldn’t be nearly as popular without a flat data fee. People stick with the high charges because the interface makes it so easy to browse, so we feel like we’re getting our money’s worth. At the very least, phone companies should offer plans that cut off the internet when you reach your limit, rather than charging absurd prices per megabyte.
Great stuff.
thank you.
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