• by Joe Mandese , February 7, 2008

Six months after his opening remarks at the last OMMA Mobile conference, programming chair Steve Smith said a lot of progress has been made in the business, but he also reminded the audience gathered here this morning of how nascent the business still is.

“We’re in the Prodigy and CompuServe era of mobile,” Smith said, referring to two of the early access services that dominated the version 1.0 of the online marketplace.

“Prodigy who?,” I heard someone quip behind me, making me wonder if 20 years from now, in a forum contemplating some new digital media platform, someone might not utter, “iPhone who?”