Scoble touts EVDO, and isn't happy that Apple isn't supporting the stock PCMCIA slot:

Why does this matter? Well, go down to Sprint and ask for an EVDO card. Or Verizon . Or Cingular . They all have them. I would say these are all now NECESSARY for a traveling businessperson. I just got one yesterday and I’ve said goodbye to Wifi forever. My friends are all buying them (Phillip Torrone showed me his at Macworld expo).

Well, there's a small rub in that. Around here (I live in Maryland) runs about $60 a month. That's not onerous, when you compare it straight up to cable/DSL prices. Personally, I'm not going to plunk down that kind of money on top of my existing home service. Could I get Cincom to pay for it? I don't know, but I suspect that I'd get questions - something like, "we already pay for broadband for you. Why do you need another connection, exactly?".

That's going to be a stopper for a lot of people, I think. It's slower than my home broadband (a fair bit slower), and slower than most WiFi connections. I realize that it's got a wider spread than Wifi, but thus far, WiFi is "good enough" for me.

How it comes down likely depends on your travel schedule. If you're a road warrior, then it should be easy to justify that $60 per month - a single WiFi session at an airport can run $10, as can the daily pickup at StarBucks (etc, etc). If you aren't a road warrior, it's going to be a lot harder.

Back to Apple - the interesting thing is this - over a decade ago, when IBM tried to push MicroChannel, people went bats. Apple is doing much the same thing with their own BIOS replacement and the push for a new card standard. And yet, no one is up in arms (or almost no one, anyway). The difference? It's all about the success of Apple marketing.