Making Mobility Profitable Dept.: My pal Jørgen Sundgot over at infoSync has recently announced infoSync Mobile, a new piad subscription service. Unlike infoSync's relatively limited AvantGo channel, the new mobile version of the site gives you everything you'd have access to on the wired site, only formatted for the smaller screens of mobile devices. Subscriptions cost $4 a month, or $10 for three months.
This is a risky venture, given that the Internet crowd is notoriously adverse to paying for content, but I think Jørgen might be on to something. The wired, PC browser-oriented site is still free. You're not paying for the content, but unfiltered, unrestricted mobile access to the content. Mobile users are already used to paying for such access, via cell time and SMS fees. Why can't what are essentially online newspaper subscriptions - albeit very focused, niche newspapers - work the same way?
This is a risky venture, given that the Internet crowd is notoriously adverse to paying for content, but I think Jørgen might be on to something. The wired, PC browser-oriented site is still free. You're not paying for the content, but unfiltered, unrestricted mobile access to the content. Mobile users are already used to paying for such access, via cell time and SMS fees. Why can't what are essentially online newspaper subscriptions - albeit very focused, niche newspapers - work the same way?
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