Telephone companies look at every service as a way to make money, which wouldn't be so bad except that it encourages them to overprice their services. I believe that people don't listen to podcasts on their phones because they don't want to pay outrageous connection charges.
Ultimately, I think convergence is the way the world will go. If phones can beat out PDAs, which require a fair amount of intelligence, surely they can beat out MP3 players which only require memory and a bit of GUI. But telephone operators have done everything they can to slow that day--by making sure they don't lose a nickel of revenue now. Still, who wants to carry multiple devices around with them all the time?
Rob Preece
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