Wired on iPhone changing mobile industry; Cringely on Moore’s law (January 27, 2008)

WirelessMoves’ Martin Sauter has posted a link to the interesting article in Wired. It describes the shift in the trends of the mobile world that we are witnessing now: focus of customer attention is moving from operators to device manufacturers. What is even more interesting, that this article in a mainstream technical magazine may probably serve as a milestone marking the point when this trend becomes obvious not only for industry insiders and thus completely inevitable.

Robert X. Cringely predicts that Moore’s law will stay here for at least 15 more years. I don’t want to make any statements about the prediction itself (better read the article), but one related thing comes to my head immediately: we have HSPA family support in our mobile phones thanks to the performance doubling. UMTS infrastructure remained the same, however, user terminals are now capable of performing HARQ — hence speed grows.