It became quite clear at Mobile Monday in London this week that the one group that aren't welcome at Mobile Mondays are the developers and from talking to the people who were there it has become obvious that they aren't seen as a welcome addition. Not to name names but one person said "Why would we want the developers there, all they do is moan about everything.". My response was that they could help to suggest solutions that aren't just purely software solutions. Once again this comment fell upon deaf ears. I should have guessed as much.
This particular MoMoLo was the solutions executives, service providers, network providers, phone manufacturers and VC's. No one really cared much about solving issues that they have with mobile it was all about look what we can do and aren't we so much better than you. They forget who actually creates the systems that users end up communicating through and that without this they wouldn't have a means of interfacing to their 3G wireless networks or be able to do mobile micro payments.
MoMo are planning on doing a demo evening next time, but it is looking more and more like a promo evening to show off one company against another on functionality of phones etc. None of the funky developing softwares with the devs, service providers and phone manufacturers to get the latest API's or SDK's into softwares. I guess this now begs the question of whether there should be a side version of MoMo as MoMoDevs where these issues are raised and working in conjunction with industry partners such as Orange, Vodafone, O2 etc the issues might just be resolved. It's just another idea being thrown out there, any views either way are welcome.
Either way I doubt I will be bothering with the next standard MoMo and will probably be signing off of their mailing list as a result of the above!
posted @ Thursday, February 09, 2006 9:26 AM