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Re: Zittrain on The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:39:59 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com> Date: October 16, 2007 1:59:35 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox comSubject: Re: [IP] Re: Zittrain on The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It
I don't get this at all. What's in an Apple iPod/iPhone/iTouch morphs every year. And if you don't like what Apple does, just don't buy Steve's silly fantasy of control. Buy an N95 or an N800, for example.
I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft was the "open" platform, while Apple was as closed as it is today - remember the Lisa, which didn't even allow third party app developers to compete? Or Steve's assertion that "all software should be $50" because the value was in the hardware?
There are scary monopoly control points (that arise due to fiber rights-of-way and corruption between the FCC and its corporate clients on spectrum). But the appliances aren't monopolies today, and the content vendors and so forth don't want to be limited to exclusive deals with wannabe monopolists, especially appliance vendors like Steve.
David Farber wrote:
We have all been saying it. But of course no one remembers Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Gray <tom_gray_grc () yahoo com> Date: October 16, 2007 11:17:40 AM EDT To: dave () farber net, tom_gray_grc () yahoo comSubject: Re: [IP] Zittrain on The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop ItProf Farber Bill Buxton has been saying this in speeches and articles for at least 10 years. One of his famous quotes is that "Convergence brings Divergence". A converged network will bring divergent or specialized appliances. This isn't the death of the Internet but of the general purpose PC. Tom Gray ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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