McGuire’s Law

Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)

• Nokia Ovi Store Launch Is A Complete Disaster
• Innovation and User Experience (and app stores)
• Android Market closing in on 5,000 applications
• Finding and choosing the right mobile app isn’t easy
• What is new in MIDP 3.0 - a quick summary
• Apple, Google mulling mobile app sharing?
• Verizon Wireless to launch branded app store
• Sony Ericsson partners with GetJar to build app store
• Not Sure I Buy the Android Fragmentation Argument
• iPhone App Store stats don’t add up to $$$

As we work to build mobility into every product, service, and process, our greatest inhibitor is the mindset represented by those who defend the tethering of products and processes to specific places. This mindset is fueled by the investments that have been made that establish power in the companies, departments, and individuals that stand in the way of mobilizing our lives and our businesses. These investments are not always in hard assets, but often are investments of time and experience to establish intellectual and relational assets. We should expect our assault on these ways to be defended to the death. Here are recent examples:

• Apple cracks down on rogue app stores
• AT&T Keeps New Wireless Entrants at Bay for $2.35B
• Verizon: US Broadband Is Really Competitive, If You Just Redefine The Market The Way We Want…

Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)

• U.S. mobile video viewers grow to 13.4 million in Q1
• AP Mobile: 55 million news stories read in first year
• Disney mobile web traffic increases 38% in Q1
• Alcatel Gets Into Mobile Ads
• Smartphones now generate 35% of mobile ad requests
• Android, iPhone Dominate Mobile Browsing in April 2009
• Mobile Music Keeps Humming As Music Industry Shrinks
• Mobile services made simple
• A Few Fun Facts About Location-Based Services
• Mobile Advertising Is Really Another Comms-Enabled Business Process
• The Dawning Age of Social Navigation

The Law of Mobility talks about value increasing with mobility. The impact of this law is being felt because the barriers to building mobility in are being obliterated week after week. Here are examples of technology advances enabling this to happen:

• STAIR batteries
• Fuel holster
• Moblin
• Lithium-sulphur batteries
• Plaza Retail
• Medfield
• Solar modules
• Snapdragon
• Tegra
• 6-axis MEMS-based motion sensing
• Accelerometers

Bonus: MobileBizBuzz on “The Rise of the Machines”

Converging products into a cellphone is one way that mobility is getting built into every product, but it’s not the only way. Every month, I’ll focus on devices that are integrating the power of mobility into products themselves in ways that create new value for the customer. Power up!

• Cars
• Home health monitors
• Textbooks
• Asthma inhalers
• Medical equipment
• Cars
• Power strips

This weekend I had the pleasure of “test driving” the new Sprint MiFi. This is an incredible device that I expect will dramatically advance the Mobility Revolution.

If you haven’t heard of the MiFi - here’s how I’ve been describing it to folks: You know that box you have at home which is your broadband router? And you know the box sitting next to it which is your WiFi access point? Well, combine those two boxes together into a battery powered device about the size of half of a deck of playing cards. Wherever you go (within Sprint coverage), you have broadband connectivity for up to five devices. Today, those devices are probably laptops or netbooks. But increasingly, they will include media players, game machines, cameras, and all kinds of other devices.

Imagine how this kind of always/anywhere connectivity will change the way we live our lives and do our jobs.

And it’s available now at Sprint.com! (It’s not yet available through Everything Plus, but…)