drjones

Xobile.com man.... AEBN has been doing PPV over cell phones for over a year. Actual streaming or downloadable video clips. Works on any carrier. Works on any phone (theoretically) that can play the 3 major mobile video formats (3gp, Real, WMV) Also check out YanksCash Pocketgirls Network. I even have a php, perl or python script you can use that taps into the Xobile device detection system and redirect users based on the device they are using.

Unfortunately for most adult webmasters, the people making the most money in mobile, generally, are people from the mobile industry.. not adult. They know all the tricks of the mobile trade, and so far havnt really made an effort to spread the knowledge;).

Mobile will get there, as many have been saying... but I too am pretty disillusioned with the current state of affairs. This mainly has to do with the shitty handsets that every manufacturer continually craps out, yet thinks its the next best thing since sliced bread. Their only concern is cramming as much buzzword laden tech into their phones with no regard for the user experience, or how it all works together. But hey.. consumers get phones with bluetooth, infared, 3g, EVDO, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA.. too bad they dont know what the fuck any of that means! Too bad the features are all hidden behind layers or poorly designed menu's, obscure non-sensical buttons and keypad layouts, and flakey operating systems. It shouldnt be a chore to figure out how to type a hyphen in the URL of your phone's webbrowser.. but it is, 90% of the time. They cant even get that right. Giving a regular person a mobile phone and asking them to go find some internet porn on it, right now, is like taking your average suburban american guy and dropping him in the middle of the African rainforest with only the shirt on his back, and saying "Find your way home!".

For someone who pushes mobile porn, that does sound pretty cynical, I know! But I do have high hopes for the iPhone.. Whether or not it lives up to the hype, well... we will have to wait and find out. But if it works half as well as advertised, I think it has potential to wake the US consumer the hell up. It may just help the US consumer see the value in a "phone thats not just a phone". A mobile device that will make your average person go "Oh shit!", instead of "huh...". At any rate, I think it will definately send the other phone manufacturers scrambling to back to the drawing board to figure out how to not make their phones suck so much.

Theres just so much about the mobile industry that fights with itself... the cellcos do so much shady business they breed practically nothing but animosity from consumers. Each one is dreaming of the day they have a monopoly and do as much as possible to limit consumers use of their devices/network while charging rediculously high prices for everything. Each adhering to their own standards in an attempt to lock out the competition, while not realizing they are actually killing the mobile ecosystem as a result. The mobile world is not a healthy world for developers and companies who want to make applications or mobile services.. The Cellcos actually do everything they can to prevent it from being healthy, so they can cook up their own half baked quasi-solutions and sell it themselves. That way, they keep all the money. They may piss of the consumers, but hey.. we dont really have a choice! The mobile environment is like a coral reef.. and the cellco's are oil tankers in the water above, with huge leaks in the bottom, covering the entire thing in their evil black sludge.

Imagine if you had to buy a new computer each time you moved and had to switch internet service providers. That provider also dictated exactly what websites you could visit, what operating system was installed on your computer, dictated exactly what you could and couldnt do with it, and charge you twice the price currently pay. Tasks that you normally do without a second though on your computer, in this other world, would actually be stupidly expensive paid services provided by your ISP. Think about switching ISP's? Good luck transfering your contact lists, etc. You get the idea. That sums up the current mobile climate pretty well.

But... there is hope, it is getting better and not worse . All the mobile adult industry hype was very premature, and it was really outta hand a year+ ago. I think the problem was really, there were a handful of companies (if even that many) making inordinant amounts of noise about their new mobile "products". Yelling about how forward thinking they are and how you can make millions today!! Everything mushroomed, probably because other companies with mobile in their future didnt want to be left in the dust, and joined in the chorus. They didnt want to let someone else take all the mindshare early on. The dust has settled and the few mobile offerings that actually had solid products (and not just hype) are still steadily growing, like they always have been. 2008-2009 should be when things start to get really good.

Now everyone knows.. you want to hear me rant and ramble, get me talking on mobile . I have more to say, but its late, and I'm forcing myself to stop!

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