Here I am, I guess it is important to take some time to get into a writing routine and post an entry every day so MEOW gets published as it should.  CTIA is a sick child - the potential is enormous but the carriers have treated it like the Soviets handled the Chernobyl aftermath. Or why would entertainment industry executives come to me and complain that they cannot make any money?  Haven’t they had enough time to learn by now? The market is still way too fragmented and will remain to be so for the next two years.  However, after that we will see some technology consolidation, 4G ramp-up as well as Apple dominance increasing to a level where they start to shape the market.  By the way, Apple was eerily absent from the show - as usual. The Billboard mobile entertainment show on Monday was a disappointment in terms of attendance - there was absolutely no buzz.  The highlight was perhaps Nokia’s keynote by Tero O.  It was refreshing to see that he laid out the right arguments in a fairly convincing way - they were the same arguments (about creating real mobile-centric value add) which we had articulated back in 1999 at Ericsson (and surely at Nokia as well).  It is only now when (a) a vendor is strong enough to execute on the vision despite carrier resistance and (b) the technology pieces are there to really make it happen.  And of course only now We will have to come back to this Nokia overall strategy, it is a very interesting challenge and there are many doubts in the air as to whether they can pull it off…