Comments on: Don’t Ignore The Least Common Denominator http://blog.simeonov.com/2009/07/21/dont-ignore-the-least-common-denominator/ Simeon Simeonov on entrepreneurship, innovation & venture capital Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Vladimir Dimitroff http://blog.simeonov.com/2009/07/21/dont-ignore-the-least-common-denominator/#comment-18028 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:57:25 +0000 http://blog.simeonov.com/?p=528#comment-18028 The SmoothSpan blogger wrote several hundred words but didn’t say much – other than he disagrees with Fred Wilson, his thesis is somewhat less than clear.

Scoble also attacked European mobile players recently for ‘being stuck in the SMS rut’ …

Yes, some nice day (around the Year 3000) everyone and his hamster will have ubiquitous and fast mobile broadband, flat affordable data tariffs (and data roaming tariffs), and insanely capable smartphones. I am all for developing tomorrow’s amazing apps and admire some of themobile visionaries and their early products.

However, I would like to see more sober views from responsible analysts and opinion leaders instead of hype-driven excitement. And less of the rather premature pronouncements of the iminnent death of SMS – the most successful mobile application, ever.

]]> By: Fred’s Got it Wrong About the Lowest Common Denominator « SmoothSpan Blog http://blog.simeonov.com/2009/07/21/dont-ignore-the-least-common-denominator/#comment-18014 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:40:18 +0000 http://blog.simeonov.com/?p=528#comment-18014 [...] ignoring the lowest common denominator.  In this case he’s talking about SMS and Twitter.  Simeon Simeonov concurs, and its easy to agree with this approach, but let me be a dissenting voice on this kind of [...]

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