Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> espoused: > Static on the Dream Phone > > ,----[ Quote ] >| Meanwhile, cracks are appearing in the control that cellular carriers have >| long held over their networks. Verizon announced last month that it will open >| its network to ?any application and any device? by the end of next year. >| >| [...] >| >| Cellular carriers need to embrace this insight. Winner-take-all profits can >| be achieved by opening up their networks and then harnessing community >| contributions (including the contributions of software developers) to improve >| ? or invent ? new services. Google is trying this with its new Open Handset >| Alliance, which combines an open-source phone platform with an Internet-style >| application development model. > `---- > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/opinion/15oreilly.html?_r=1&oref=slogin > It's unlikely that the mobile carriers will be able to make up in revenue from new services what they were getting from their walled gardens, but it's even less likely that they'll be able to retain their walled gardens in perpetuity... -- | Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk | | Cola faq: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/ | | Cola trolls: http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/ | | My (new) blog: http://www.thereisnomagic.org |