Monday, May 22, 2006

Is it the answer? (ESPN mobile, Helio et al)

I had earlier posted about how I found the idea of an ESPN cellphone somewhat unimpressive (http://lomesh.blogspot.com/2005/10/now-this-is-what-i-call-ridiculous.html).

Another good example is "Helio for Myspace" (the only mobile client for MySpace). I think Myspace is absolutely cool and people would love to have it mobile. BUT at the cost of owning a new cellphone ?? What kind of fad is that ???

I checked both of these services recently and no doubt they are pretty impressive. So as a sports buff the best option to experience ESPN on my phone is to buy an ESPN phone and to access MySpace I need to buy Helio.

So from now on if I have to watch MTV, I'll buy a MTV branded TV cos that's the one that provides me with best MTV viewing experience and for watching CNN I need another TV cos that's the one that provides the best viewing experience for CNN. Going a little too further lets say a new PC for every website, for instance, I have to have a Google PC to access Google. I can probably view Yahoo.com on google PC but the experience is nowehere comparable to my best friend's PC who has a Yahoo PC.
Is that the answer ? The world is converging or so I thought!

What do you think ??