squared99

“Get your free* ringtones here!!!! Yes, absolutely FREE*!!!!!

It will cost you nothing*, especially on your unlimited* data plans! Be sure you are signed up for unlimited* data plans or you may incur additional download charges.”

I love how throwing a star at the end of word means it doesn’t have to mean what it is supposed to mean. In fact it seems to indicate that you should apply the opposite meaning.

Free actually can mean $4 charges 3 times/week appearing on your phone bill, and unlimited means capped.

This kind of 1984 NuSpeak approach to terms and conditions is great*. I completely support* it, and hope that it continues*. It’s a completely ethical* business approach, and the folks who come up with them are wonderful*!

Interesting blog entry I read today and I’m watching this space with much interest.

Be it iPhone or gPhone or any other next gen device; extending rich web experience into the mobile web is really the only way we can go. If it is social networks that drive that to happen, fantastic, but that will open the door for many more mobile web apps/services. This is especially good news for those 3rd party apps creating facebook widgets and so forth, as they will get carried along for the ride.

This is the somewhat weird state we are in at the moment, the transition state. We have all these great online services, social networks etc, we have all these new fangled phones, pda’s (or whatever we choose to call them) coming out, but carriers are still dragging their feet on access. We could be so much farther ahead in this space at the moment if the carrier broadband service offerings were moving apace with the rest.

In any case it is inevitable, the boulder has already been tipped over the edge of the hill and the momentum is gaining.