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Re: [News] Phones Are Taking the Free Open Source Software Route

____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 29 December 2007 23:10 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 19 December 2007 14:13 : \____
>> 
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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...
>>  
>> Paul Allen has jumped onto the same bandwagon just now (it's in the news).
>> Things are changing fast. Last week there was also an article about
>> bittorrent-like (pooling connectivity a la OLPC) for phones. Very
>> disruptive.
>> 
> 
> It'll be possible to pool capacity for data services, but for real-time
> streaming, it won't work.

So text messages maybe? Despatch when a relay is available? That would kill an
industry that (can't recall the numbers for sure ATM) relies on 10 or 100
billion messages (=fee) per day.

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