Cingular Walled Garden?
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A MobileBurn reader wrote to me in regards to my post about Cingular introducing mobile email and instant messaging applications (here) asking whether I think that this is a move towards a "walled garden" strategy.
I think this is quite the opposite actually, as the mobile applications are specifically designed to work with third-party services. Admittedly, the apps don't work with ALL services, but Hotmail, AIM, and Yahoo! Mail are hardly Cingular services.
If Cingular released mobile email and IM applications that only allow you to access Cingular services, then I would say it is heading toward the 'walled garden', I think ...
