Yea, more mobile services – Who needs it?
This post was published 3 years 7 months 19 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.I must admit I am slighly biased (but when doesn’t this blog have some sort of skew), I don’t like large companies. They are lost in their own mire, and inner red tape.
That being said, AOL has released new mobile services:
America Online introduced on Monday new and enhanced mobile services, including new mobile browsing that adapts regular webpages to mobile screens, as the provider of online services and content competes for wireless Internet users.
Meanwhile, AOL online mapping unit MapQuest announced it plans to provide a mobile service that will provide spoken driving directions to users. Called MapQuest Navigator, the service is expected to become available via U.S. cell phone providers later this year.via
I’m glad AOL finally woke up and realized that people are using data on their cellphones, but I think this is too little too late. Opera already has a quite nifty web browser that is very compatible with MANY cellphones, and why are they bothering with other picture/text sharing methods when intercarrier MMS works just fine. AOL, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. You are missing the fire and drive that you once had.
I think there are far more tiny, hungry Web 2.0 companies that will be able to sneak in and nibble away at the larger corporations simply because these Web 2.0 companies are nimble, have no rules and settle for nothing less then number one.
I think this is a lame attempt by AOL to stay relevant while they hemorrhage subscribers.
well aol always seems to be the late comer in regards to any recent forward development. i can’t think of a single service in the past 10 years that aol has presented. their recent decision to release a browser is indeed too little too late. current mobile browsers ie opera mobile will be tough to beat. recall the bloated aol browser that comes bundled with aim triton. bloated, bloated, and heavy. will mobile data users really find aol’s browser appealing? no…
and the picture text sharing. blech. that’s like a mobile phone users logging into a website through their handset and sending a text message. tedious and worthless.
that’s great, just wait till it takes over the phone…