Comments on: One More Thing…. http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/07/and-another-thing/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Suresh Kumar http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/07/and-another-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-98992 Suresh Kumar Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:38:51 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/07/and-another-thing/#comment-98992 I dont think we need support for third party applicatons. I mean in the sense... it will be controlled through iTunes software downloads. Right now you can buy games, written especially by EA for the iPod. Its a classic case of Supplier control... Hes taking control of the complete value chain.. he wants to control the choke. EA will sell as many games titles as he decides not what EA decides. In the future, he may open it up, im sure he will, just not immediately. The AT&T/Cingular is more obvious- he wanted to go with the biggest GSM player in the US. Simple as that. This way the other standards (which frankly we dont need) will slowly wither away. In UK, im sure we'll have a few more carriers, but only those that are interested in innovating their back-end with the iPhone. (e.g. Visial VoiceMail). Given a choice between a world dominated by a company like Microsoft which is an un-creative, un-innovative monopoly (ran by Gates) vs. a creative, innovative, potential monopolost (run by Jobs)... I know which world i would prefer! I dont think we need support for third party applicatons.

I mean in the sense… it will be controlled through iTunes software downloads.

Right now you can buy games, written especially by EA for the iPod.

Its a classic case of Supplier control… Hes taking control of the complete value chain.. he wants to control the choke.

EA will sell as many games titles as he decides not what EA decides.

In the future, he may open it up, im sure he will, just not immediately.

The AT&T/Cingular is more obvious- he wanted to go with the biggest GSM player in the US. Simple as that. This way the other standards (which frankly we dont need) will slowly wither away.

In UK, im sure we’ll have a few more carriers, but only those that are interested in innovating their back-end with the iPhone. (e.g. Visial VoiceMail).

Given a choice between a world dominated by a company like Microsoft which is an un-creative, un-innovative monopoly (ran by Gates) vs. a creative, innovative, potential monopolost (run by Jobs)… I know which world i would prefer!

]]> By: Kerry Buckley http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/07/and-another-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-97463 Kerry Buckley Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:37:50 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2007/02/07/and-another-thing/#comment-97463 ...with support for third-party applications. Shouldn't the title be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_more_thing#.22One_more_thing.E2.80.A6.22" rel="nofollow">One more thing</a>? ;-) …with support for third-party applications.

Shouldn’t the title be One more thing? ;-)

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