Seamus McAteer Quotations

Mobile entertainment is, without a doubt, the future of the phone. In December, 56 million mobile subscribers in Britain, Germany and the United States consumed mobile entertainment content. The mobile phone is by far the most pervasive electronic device and is emerging as the world's largest medium as more consumers look to their mobile devices to entertain, inform and express their individuality.

Phone.com is going against some well-capitalized and profitable entities -- Nokia (NOK) and Ericsson. It obviously felt that having more heft would help it to compete with software developers. And Software.com gets an entry into the wireless infrastructure space -- a space that everyone wants to play in. The combined entity will have its work cut out for it.

It doesn't provide any compelling advantage for consumers. We don't see it playing a role on the consumer PC or other appliances in near future.

When you look at the enabling technologies for live voice, most consumers have speakers, many have a microphone, but how you get them to work is another thing.

Everyone's looking for a bit of the transaction spike.

As the e-commerce market matures, you're going to see more software package solutions. Even Oracle is getting into the applications business. There is much more packaging on the software side to facilitate seamless scalability.

A site that wants to prepare for rapid traffic expansion will want to make sure that it has internally all the systems it needs to handle that traffic when it comes.

Our data shows that more games do not yield more gamers. In fact, an examination of the title mix across competing carriers reinforces the lack of any correlation. It is apparent that other factors, such as subscriber demographics and pricing, play a bigger role.

As all carriers more aggressively promote subscription-based models, they are also testing price inelasticity by gradually inching up average pricing. To grow the market, carriers must work in tandem with publishers to provide real value for a more expensive subscription, rather than treating it as just another pricing tactic.

It's still several years before carriers come close to emulating the success Apple has had in digital music.

I'm not convinced that the prospect for universal messaging on one mailbox can handle all your needs.

The closed carrier portals and the limited interfaces make it difficult for new brands to break in. But as we get more powerful browsers and more powerful phones, we'll have new ways to seek out content. We'll start seeing new business models and new entrepreneurs.