I picked up Carlo Longino's post just minutes ago on my feed reader (he discusses surprisingly low mobile Internet usage penetration statistics) and I was struck by how well his final paragraph summed up what's wrong with today's mobile Internet, or at least many operators' visions of it:
…Users should be empowered to access whatever they want. This means no walled gardens, and powerful browsers that can access full HTML sites. Second, operators should focus on adding value to users’ internet experiences by recognizing that mobile browsing is different than browsing from a computer and add to (not replace) the open access with more customized services and sites for users that want them.
Amen to that. Who wants Internet lite? Not Skweezer users, that's for sure. The original article at Netimperitive is quite interesting too, as it backs up the rationale for Skweezer's whole existence (emphasis mine):
… One in three (33%) British mobile phone users want to surf the web on their mobile phones, but only if it is like the true Internet environment. To date only one in ten (11%) British mobile users have browsed the Internet on a mobile, compared to over one in four (28%) world wide.
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