Nokia, Apple, Google is the ball starting to roll ?

There is an overall perception that 2008 is the year where mobile will take off as a platform widely open to innovation. Until now, the majority of those exposed to mobile application development have been stuck at the entry of so called operators walled garden, and/or are busy fixing fragmentation problems accross a wide variety of not so similar handset … Recent initiatives from Apple and Google (both newcomers in the mobile arena) suggest that what until recently was looking a distant future is about to happen. There will probably be resistances on the way towards “new mobile” (you may call it mobile 2.0), and to understand what may go wrong it helps to review what the much needed reorganization imply.