Mobile Dungeons Revisited

Following my previous post on Walled Gardens and Locked Dungeons, Moco News had this interesting post today.  Apparently T-Mobile USA is now blocking access to 3rd party applications.

 Customer aggravation aside, where does that leave the score of companies who try to make a living by distributing phone clients?

It’s bad enough that applications cannot run on all phones (I could not get GMail to connect, could not get Widsets to work, could not get LiteFeeds to run, etc.), but now you also have to embrace your new business partner – the operator.

It is hard enough to get users to actually download and install applications on their phone.  But with more operators adopting this attitude, entire market segments simply become unavailable to those companies.  Scary.

 — Oren