Last night I attended the WirelessTechnology Forum’s yearly Vision 2010 in Mobile & Wireless. The WTF is a wireless industry association in Atlanta, GA focused specifically on the needs of wireless and mobile technologies products and services providers.

I thought it would be fun to put together a post on the predictions and hopefully spark some interesting discussion. I’m going to list them here along with my personal comment about each, but you can find the PDF with all the details as provided by inCode Telecom at this link. Thanks to inCode for making their document available and Jorge Fuenzalida of inCode for presenting and participating on the panel.

1. Wireless Operators Push Netbooks, but They Prove A Mixed Bag
   • Netbooks are going to be a confusing thing for customers to get their head around for a while until they find where they fit in their lives. The carriers are going to find it difficult to support something that consumers view more as a laptop than a phone.
2. The FCC: Stuck in Neutral with the Net
   • I don’t see the PCC coming to resolve on this in the next year. Every day the Internet exists, people’s expectations get more solidified that it should be free(as in unfiltered and unconstrained).
3. Wireless Operators Play “Whack-a-Mole” with Data Issues
   • Carriers will continue to complain about all this data taxing their infrustructure while at the same time trying to get higher margins out of their device and service offerings. Can’t have it both ways. We’re all going to want more, so quit whining and fix your networks.
4. When all Devices are Smart, What Becomes Genius?
   • It’s way to early to start thinking of the next class of devices. Probably more likely is that cell phone and smartphone and netbook will all trend to something more generic and encapsulate all of them. Any stabs at what this term will be?
5. Wireless Data Pricing Looks More Like the Airlines’
   • God, I hope not, but it seems inevitable. For a while, the carriers will likely unbundle their offerings so that the very lowest offering will still have some amount of “I don’t have to think about it, it’s just there.” dataplan. When each mobile device in the whole country is addressable and we don’t have to think about the costs of communicating with it, that will be a huge watershed for the culture at large. My hope is that we get through this a fast as possible and get to an everything for one flat fee plan and maybe even a data only plan(say VOIP).
6. M2M Leads Operators into New Acquisition Area
   • Inevitable, but early as a prediction. We need to tackle cost per unit and addressability issues first. (IPV6 anyone?)
7. Looking at Clouds from Both Sides Now
   • Maybe I’m wrong here, but I don’t see carriers as good cloud computing providers. I think that the business model just doesn’t fit with their mindset. Other players are much better prepared to offer this service and carriers should stick to providing reliable pipe.
8. A Device Operating System Bites the Dust
   • In the meeting we eliminated everyone but one. Palm.
9. MVNOs Get New Lease on Life in a Very Different Form
   • Not yet, but the biggest force for changing the game in terms of business model is Google. What if you could buy a device with a lifetime of connectivity included in the price?
10. Game Console Video Kills the PC Star: at Least for Internet Video
    • I don’t own a game console, so I can’t really comment here. I do however equate game console owners to early adopters and younger consumers who aren’t burned with the status quo.
11. You Can’t Track the Players without a Scorecard
    • Agreed. We are in a period of expansion to be followed by consolidation(every industry goes through this.) We can be assured that the metrics we rely on now won’t even begin to express where the future value is in the industry.

As you can see, inCode slipped in a bonus prediction, but as everyone knows, All good things go to 11.

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http://www.wirelesstechnologyforum.org “Mobile Devices beyond their Original Markets: BlackBerry in the consumer space and iPhone in Enterprise” Hody Crouch, Product Strategy Manager, Oracle.  Hody put on a great presentation and ensuing discussion about how Blackberry is approaching the consumer market and how iPhone is approaching the enterprise market.  Both see opportunities in each other’s pies.  See http://www.iphonecto.com for more on the iPhone angle.

Tuesday night was the iPhone developer meeting.  http://atliphonedev.com/ Where there was a discussion of the iPhone OS 3.0 features coming out and what developers are doing to address and incorporate them.

Last friday,  Amro put his sweat and tears into the first http://www.mobicamp.me/.  There was a great turnout and participants presented and garnered discussion.  The best part in my opinion was the discussion of people experience with getting iPhone apps through the approval process.  Dan Greenfield put together a little writeup over on his blog Bernaise Source and mentioned me.  Thanks Dan!

OK, so that’s all in the past, what’s coming next?  Ed Pimentel is organizing Mobile Monday An industry-focused Community meet-up to share ideas, best practices MobileMonday Atlantan trends.  Visit http://www.mobilemonday.ws for more details and to sign up.

So if you live in the Atlanta metro area and are doing mobile development work, you have absolutely no excuse not to get out and mingle with your fellow mobile developers.

-Andrew

It’s called QuoteJuice, but it’s still in it’s embryodic stage.

One thing I wanted to do was see of anyone was linking to the QuoteJuice About page or the Privacy Policy page or even the Site Map.

I’m excited to see where this project goes.

Today I noticed the my iPhone doesn’t show up in iTunes and Xcode but does in iPhoto.   After a few reboots of my Macbook Pro and the iPhone with no success, I started Googling to see if there was a “hold your tongue like this and restart” sort of solution.  The most promising help came from this apple link.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1747

This seemed to be about what you would need to do to wipe iTunes and get reloaded.  I tried it three times before giving up and searching more.  Seemed to me that OSX should have some logs that would indicate a problem.  I cranked up a terminal and looked in the standard unix places /var/log etc. but found nothing of interest.  I Googled more and found that the Console app is the best tool to see what’s going on.

I saw a curious message with 

…USBMuxListenerCreate “no such file” and Googled it and found similar folks with the same problem.  I also noticed that the iTunes installation noted that it was skipping the mobile framework.  I decided to risk renaming the folder and rerun the iTunes install.

1. In the terminal become the root user.

2. Go to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks

3. Look for a folder called MobileDevice.framework

4. Rename is using rm MobileDevice.framework MobileDevice.fw 

5. Follow the above link to remove all the rest of the iTunes files

6. Empty the trash and reboot.

7. Re-run the iTunes installer while watching the Console to see that it wasn’t skipped again.  There was some sort of Device framework that was skipped, but the correct files seemed to get installed this time.

After all of this, the iPhone magically was recognized and iPhoto and iTunes started up and it started syncing.  I even started Xcode and it showed up there as well.  

That seemed to do the trick, but I wonder if a similar approach has worked for anyone else.

This link might also be of help to some folks.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1747

I did find (after knowing what I was looking for) this link that suggests deleting it as well.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Unable-To-Restore-iPhone–What-Can-You-Do-If-You-Are-Unable-To-Restore-iPhone

I hope someone else finds this helpful.  I was dreading having to take it to a “Genius” as I’m sure that they would have spun around and ended up with “reload OSX”.

-Andrew

-Andrew

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Many thanks to Jonathan Freeman for his excellent presentation at Atlanta PHP.

-Andrew

How distractible are you? The answer may lie in your working memory capacity

I may have to start reading this blog.  But right now I can’t be distracted.

-Andrew