On Mar 19, 9:25 am, acrosser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, JP, if developers found a way to port Asterisk to the G1,
> included it in the source code of the Android OS, and somehow forced T-
> Mobile to provide this functionality on every G1 they shipped (and
> Aunt Jeanie & Uncle Harold somehow figure out how to set up and use
> the Asterisk feature)... this would undoubtedly siphon a significant
> amount of revenue from T-Mobile through the rates they charge for
> their plans. Yes, you could argue that carriers charge too much for
> their voice plans, but T-Mobile is competetive with most other major
> carriers. So what would be the incentive for T-Mobile (or any other
> carrier) to even offer the G1 in the first place if they couldn't make
> any money off of it? And if we don't have carrier support for Android,
> all we have are handheld devices that play games & apps, without any
> network connection or phone call capabilities (except through WiFi,
> but nothing cellular network-based).
>
> Just because a mobile operating system is open source doesn't mean all
> the things we CAN do with it will be free. If a group of philanthropic
> Android developers wants to get together and start building &
> maintaining cell phone towers throughout the world, and then offering
> free or very cheap access to the voice/data network they produce, then
> that might be a good start. ;-)
Well that's exactly my point (in response to the open source
argument). Any contribution to the project, even by Google, is at the
mercy of the channel, and that's the carriers. At this point. The fact
that T-Mobile can make people pay $10/month extra just to get from 400
text messages to "unlimited" speaks volumes.
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