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Hello 3GWeek readers. This is a Saturday and I hope I don’t bother you with this post. Today at 5:10 AM, TechCrunch’s Eric Schonfield had just published a post regarding issue in mobile web platform. He took this issue from a roundtable discussion among speakers who has a pretty significant position in this field. Watch the video here but read the excerpt first.

The Roundtable is a free wheeling discussion about whether the mobile Web is finally here and which platform will win going forward. While the iPhone seems like a slam dunk right now, can older platforms like Nokia’s Symbian or Windows Mobile replicate its success? Does Apple have anything to fear from Google’s Android? To help answer these questions we have an amazing group of mobile startup CEOs, top iPhone app developers, and other technologists on the RoundTable.

Now here is the main point. He wanted us to comment on it. So who’s going to be the winner of this battle? Here is my answer (which I just copied from my own comment for TC):

I think each of those platforms will have their own fans. However, if only we assume that this MobileWars is similar to what had happened in PCWars, I think that platform that is supported by various manufacturers will rule the game. In this case, I prefer Symbian and Android as the top contestants in this league. Let me repeat it first; in term of quantity, the open platform will always win the game.

While the closed platform (at least till this date) like iPhone SDK or Blackberry OS can only live in their own shadow of its lovers. Though both of them are still enjoying a lot of hype from anywhere right now, sooner or later, people will get bored. As a consequences, people will leave them. Especially for Apple with its iPhone, if what they can only made is something which is always like that; candy bar + touch screen + black or white + slim + 3G + 4G + 5G + XG, then I’m pretty much worry about it’s durability.

Today we love iPhone because it gives us something “new” (branding and marketing strategy). Something which other manufacturers are to late to decide. But when the time has come, when all manufacturers give us the same features as what iPhone had already offered then the story might be change. Still, in the future of course.

Okay, that’s mine! Now, what about you?

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Here is the list of those guys. They’re look very promising.

David Rivas, Nokia, Vice President of Technology Management for S60 Software
Walt Doyle, CEO Ulocate
Tom Conrad, CTO Pandora
Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media CEO
Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous
David Hornik, partner, August Capital
Jed Stremel, Director of Mobile at Facebook (replacing Joe Hewitt)
Guy Ben-Artzi, Founder of Real Dice and CEO of Mytopia
Jason Devitt, CEO of Skydeck
Gannon Hall, CMO of Kyte
Sam Altman, CEO of Loopt
Marc Davis, chief scientists of Yahoo’s mobile group
Omar Hamoui, CEO of AdMob
Richard Wong, partner at Accel
Andreas Weigend, people & data (former chief scientist, Amazon)
Tatsuki Tomita, SVP of Consumer Product, Opera
Mike Rowehl, chief architect, SkyFire
Mary Ann Cotter, CEO, Cooking Capsules
John Faith , GM and VP of Mobile for MySpace

Source: TechCrunch

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