On 16/01/2007, at 2:59 AM, Jim Youll wrote:
Rather, how do we put the right people in the right spot with the right carrier, to nudge that door open the first little bit, as happened successfully for iRobot, the paging company, and the ISP in the examples here? Cell companies actually a bit open in the early days when they were starved for applications. That's changed now. How do we change it back?
Cease to care, and bypass them with something else. Which is what WiFi hotspots look like they're starting to do... Sure, it's not a feasible alternative now, but consider that a WiFi is almost a cell base station other than range. Change the range, and there's a new mobile computing industry! Mesh it up as well.
GPS? Pretty crap for anything other than "random desert, tell me where!". Having used a GPS extensively, most of my needs would be better met by detecting WiFi and Bluetooth signals in the environment - works indoors!
Every carrier would have told Apple to sod off. Apple are small and the mobile phone industry is so huge that they could make toe jam out of computer companies. Only a dying behemoth like Cingular would even consider it, and only on their terms. Look how long Cingular lasted after the Keynote - absorbed by AT&T 2 days later!
The commentary on the iPhone has assumed that phone is as it was announced, the plans are as they were announced, and that it will be sold and packaged as announced for the next 5 years. We should be more interested in what changes will be made to the current (unsatisfactory) set of arrangements.
The value of the iPhone to me is to set a new benchmark to the rest of the industry. Stop making crap and make it at least that good. And no more Java, thank you very much! :)
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