Jim,
The reason Apple never gets into trouble for monopolistic behaviour is
that the company has never been that successful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act
Section 2 of the Act forbade monopolyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly.
In Section 2 cases, the court has, again on
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Sent: 30 January 2010 22:55
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] iPad
On 30 Jan 2010, at 22:39, Alex Mace wrote:
FUD.
Nothing so
iPad is just a wall fence for publishers.
Sam Mbale
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Christopher Woods
chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote:
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For a bit of balance, how about
http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/ (or
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/29/stephen-fry-apple-ipad )
Dear old Mr Fry seems to have taken to the role of Apple's Chief Apologist
very seriously.
On 31 January 2010 14:06, Sam Mbale
I remember when I just joined twitter Stephen Fry was the evangelist. Kudos
to him.
I always get this feedback from people that geeks are boring. Sadly it's
true.
Sam Mbale
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:31 PM,
I remember when I subscribed to The Listener, Stephen Fry was an amusing,
gay, reformed credit card thief.
On 31 January 2010 15:25, Sam Mbale smb...@mpelembe.net wrote:
I remember when I just joined twitter Stephen Fry was the evangelist.
Kudos to him.
I always get this feedback from people
Good for him
Sam Mbale
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tvwrote:
I remember when I subscribed to The Listener, Stephen Fry was an amusing,
gay, reformed credit card thief.
I think the point he was making was that he has actually had his hands
on the device and that it is pleasant to use.
That, after all, is what made the iPhone a success; ease of use and
desirability.
Scoble has an interesting interview with his kid on why it isn't
compelling for college
It's all about accessibility. is it worth it?
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rupert Watson rup...@root6.com wrote:
I think the point he was making was that he has actually had his hands on
the
I think it is more about conflation / coalescence / convergence on one
device.
The more one can consume, interact and communicate on one platform, the
better, I think.
Rupert Watson
+44 7787 554 801
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From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk
I think it is more about conflation / coalescence / convergence on one
device.
The more one can consume, interact and communicate on one platform, the
better, I think.
Ultimately there will always be two parallel markets: the walled garden and
the open, communal one. Google and Apple
Hello BBC Backstage,
In the last few weeks I have been working on a simple system, similar to
Chris Riley's trackplaying, of showing the currently playing song on BBC
Radio and providing some information about the song and artist. I have never
sent an email to a mailing list before, but I am
Cool... :-)
Cheers,
Rich.
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Tim Coysh tjcr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello BBC Backstage,
In the last few weeks I have been working on a simple system, similar to
Chris Riley's trackplaying, of showing the currently playing song on BBC
Radio and providing some
On 31-Jan-2010, at 18:31, Christopher Woods wrote:
That said, the curated shop / marketplace experience will always hold sway
with the 'just want it to work' segment of the userbase, so the lightbulb
moment will only happen for most users when someone/some company manages to
devise a
On 27-Jan-2010, at 16:19, Dave Crossland wrote:
Well exactly, there are THREE main desktops, and one doesn't and wont have
h264 preinstalled.
This wouldn't be a problem if The Guardian and other news broadcasters
stopped bystanding and made the videos they publish available in Xiph
Tim,
Looking quite good for a prototype. Do you know about
http://musicbrainz.org/ and how it integrates into the
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music system?
An example Massive Attack is at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/10adbe5e-a2c0-4bf3-8249-2b4cbf6e6ca8* ?*
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On 31 January 2010 19:19, Tim
On 31 January 2010 20:35, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
What happens to news.bbc.co.uk when the number of users who DON’T have
Flash support is significant? i.e., measured in hundreds of thousands? What
about iPlayer? What happens when the in-browser DRM option ceases to exist?
Hell
On 31-Jan-2010, at 20:58, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Hell freezes over? Or http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/syndication.shtml
perhaps.
The latter was what I had in mind…
I would have a play with get_player on the command line, that shows what
other format there really out there.
I’m
Brian,
Yes I do, Thanks anyway. I havent used this feature much, as the Musicbrainz
ID Tag is not usually scrobbled. If you look in the Similar Artists box, you
can see the BBC Music Link there.
Tim Coysh
On 31 January 2010 20:35, Brian Butterworth briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
Tim,
On 31 January 2010 21:47, Mo McRoberts m...@nevali.net wrote:
On 31-Jan-2010, at 20:58, Brian Butterworth wrote:
Hell freezes over? Or
http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/syndication.shtml perhaps.
The latter was what I had in mind…
I would have a play with get_player on the command
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