18 Quotes by Julie Ask

The potential for local search and local advertising comes into play.

I think it's definitely the direction the industry is going. It's a great time to be testing the market.

Parents get mobile phones for their teens because they want to communicate in case of an emergency, and wireless carriers have made it easy to add users to their existing plans. Wireless carriers have been very successful in getting parents to expand their plans to include their teens, but between free phones and shared minutes, it's not the most lucrative proposition for carriers.

We haven't seen anything that looks and feel like an Apple product yet.

The problem is wired broadband will always be cheaper and faster than wireless.

At the end of the day, most people still just want to talk on their cell phone. There are very few people who want to download music or do these types of broadband-type activities.

Five percent of mobile subscribers will use video.

Apple sells hardware and software. They don't have an existing subscriber base like cable companies, and they don't have content like ESPN that people have an affinity to.

This is going to be an exciting space for the next couple years.