Clip Art for Cellphones
I had a group come by recently and pitch me that the Next Billion-Dollar Thing on cellphones is … clip art. Ringtones, they argued, were only one part of personalization, and a passe one at that. The next frontier, to their way of pitching, is personalized art on your phone.
While I told them that I think they’re probably wrong (people may customize phones with clip art, but a) it serves a different non-broadcast purpose, and b) they’re unlikely to pay for it), I’m happily proven wrong myself. So … I’m curious how many people have clip art (or photos, or whatever) as the desktop on their phone.
Just to get things started, I’ll stand up and testify that I have an admittedly scary Ralph Steadman drawing (from the excellent Criterion DVD of Withnail and I) as my Treo’s desktop.
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