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On the news from Midem front:

Reuters reports that the music industry finally seems to get it.

Rather than continue the long slow self flagellating fight against the inevitable, music execs are embracing online sales and hope to see an expansion of them from 1% of 2004 revenues to 25% by 2009. Cellpods for everyone!

Biz Week’s Olag Kharif has definitely drunk the mobile Kool-Aid.

Power to him and of course I agree with a lot of the things he mentions, including the importance of the ever quickening rise of the cellcam and cellpod. I think he’s a bit overly optimistic in his implied timelines for some of the higher data rate futures (imagine loading movies for home theater consumption via your cell phone on today’s GPRS or even EDGE!) and that HD video will stress wireless systems and give cable and satellite companies plenty of business for the foreseeable future.

If nothing else, it’s an interesting thought piece on the possibilities.

Snapfish recently reported on the results from a cellcam user survey they conducted with individuals from across the US. Click here to read their press release including the results.

I wasn’t surprised that most people find camera phones easy to use, use them around the home, and take more pictures of their kids than anyone else (I’m guilty of all three counts). I was a bit surprised that interest in video was so low, but then many cellcams capture relatively poor video at this point, so perhaps interest will rise with higher resolutions, better sound, and bigger in-device storage via SD and MMC slots?

The most heartening stat for me:

56% of people think camera phones will replace digital & film
cameras in the next 10-20 years

56% is a pretty big number of people who already see the writing on the wall.