IPhone Drives Up Mobile Web Dramatically

The quote of the week comes from Google at the World Mobile Congress:

Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple‘s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the group’s confidence at being able to generate significant revenues from the mobile internet.

“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

This should come as no surprise to anyone that follows the mobile web. Dramatic improvement in the ability to browse on a mobile device leads to a dramatic improvement in the use of the mobile web.

Furthermore it proves another more important point, and that is carrier's portals will be come irrelevant in the future as the ability to reach further a field (the internet that is) will increase. If people will remember that all the ISPs used to have starting portals linked to MSN or Yahoo or something. These today are relics from the past.

Apple and Google's Android are doing the consumer a great deal of good breaking down the traditional barriers and creating a whole new experience for mobile users. One day we will look back at products like Sprint PCS Vision as quaint but ultimately forgettable products from the past like the Corvair or Pinto.