Why sell you the book when they can just rent it to you? Seems to make
sense from a business perspective.
I'm really interested in all the software that cars have now. How long
are they expected to update the software? In 20 years, if there's a
software bug that shuts down and bricks your car in the middle of the
interstate, who's fault is it? The 20 year old code? Or should you pay
a monthly access fee for the right to drive your car and getting
software updates.
On 12/25/2014 4:50 PM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote:
Long ago, people had dumb terminals that were useless without the
mainframe, while a centralized organization decided what software you
could run, and snooped on your data.
Luckily the PC was invented to free us from the tyranny of IT and the
mainframe.
The IT people tried to regain their control over us with "thin
clients", but we didn't fall for that trick.
Now everything old is new again, and we have "the cloud" and "devices"
and "SaaS" which basically means renting software. And if the cloud
goes down, the devices are bricks. Even game consoles, even school
textbooks, even Belkin routers.
Can you imagine a book publisher going out of business, and the books
on your shelves suddenly have blank pages? Pontiac goes out of
business, and your Firebird stops running?
-----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen via Af
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 4:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Playstation, Xbox Live networks reported down?
On 12/25/14 11:30 AM, Mathew Howard via Af wrote:
Xbox? is that just because the game is stupidly made, or is it
everything?
That's how it all works now. Things call home to authorize you're
allowed to use it.
~Seth
