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Verizon's On A Great Roll - But What Does It Ultimately Mean?: Page 2 of 2

The brass at Verizon Wireless have got to be pleased with where things are going these days. Of late, the mobile giant has had some big press releases and rollouts, and there's no doubt that different camps in several markets are taking note. If the only criticism that Big V faces this week is that CEO Ivan Seidenberg's keynote at CES was boring, the company's strategists must be hitting on all cylinders. But despite Verizon's immediate huzzahs, recent goings on in the mobile space have also gen
Lee Badman
January 10, 2011

For me, my Droid has largely replaced my Garmin GPS, my SanDisk MP3 player and my Sanyo pocket digital camera. I can't be alone in drawing down the number of devices I tote, and the makers of these devices have got to be feeling a negative reciprocal effect from the smartphone boom. If not yet, then certainly at some point, as smartphones and cross-functional tablets penetrate more homes. Let's not forget about landlines losing ground to households, like mine, that have cut the cord and communicate exclusively via mobile devices.

So where's it all really going? Sure, that's a big, mostly unanswerable question. But, like the "digital divide," the "smartphone divide" is also becoming significant. The ability to simply pull up some app anywhere you happen to be gives amazing power that flip-phoners just can't imagine, and it would seem that more non-smartphoners will be making the jump as they realize what they are missing.

And as more people get smartphones, the butterfly effect can't be denied. Jobs and fortunes are being created and destroyed as several markets change along with the proliferation of smartphones. Never before have so many devices crossed the situational boundaries that once separated work from home, and those of us that run work networks don't quite yet know how to really deal with it all.

Congratulations to Verizon Wireless on a big couple of weeks. As Dylan would say, the times they are a-changin'.

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