Julie Ask

The big challenge is inventory. Not a lot of people watch this, so how do you get a big enough read more

The big challenge is inventory. Not a lot of people watch this, so how do you get a big enough market that makes it worth your while?

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating read more

I have been fielding quite a few calls about Apple's filing of the 'Mobile Me' patent. Folks have been speculating about a phone from Apple for more than a year. Being that I am a wireless analyst, I don't follow Apple as closely as others do. What I do know though, is that we are not likely to know until Apple wants us to know. They are pretty good at big surprises. Do I think they are developing a phone? Probably. Probably somewhere in their labs, there are prototypes of phones. Whether or not they bring one to market commercially is another story. Whether or not they will do so on their own is another open question. Hard to imagine carrier subsidies on a device unless there are revenues to be earned through downloaded services and content.

We haven't seen anything that looks and feel like an Apple product yet.

We haven't seen anything that looks and feel like an Apple product yet.

Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time.

Certainly the notion of putting music video on phones will increase over time.

At the end of the day, most people still just want to talk on their cell phone. There are very read more

At the end of the day, most people still just want to talk on their cell phone. There are very few people who want to download music or do these types of broadband-type activities.