The continuing trend toward open wireless platforms is inevitable; it is simply not possible for an operator to create and support the plethora of applications that low-cost wireless data makes practical. Verizon and AT&T have already announced moves, albeit feeble, in this direction. It will take a long time. It will be a few years before Xohm is widely deployed and still longer for the impact of Xohm to be felt. But it WILL happen.