A couple of years ago I the likelihood of music being opened up into a drm-free world where everyone could compete on largely equal footing seemed pretty remote.
Two year later it's happened/happening.
Today the possibility of a mobile world where anybody can compete on an equal footing and where service replaces distribution as the main competitive advantage might seem remote.
It'll be interesting to see where we're at in two years. :)
Chris
· 1 year ago
Cell phone killer? Really?
What networks and hardware must these "cell phone killers" run on? Oh... right... The popular mobile Internet services are EVDO or 3G - cellular networks. And the hardware this Skype is running on? Cell phones or cellular equipped devices for the most part.
So no, this does not kill cell phones, if anything, it increases demand for a large cellular network. This article may have actually been newsworthy if it wasn't with the premise that Skype was somehow going to "kill" cell phones.
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Two year later it's happened/happening.
Today the possibility of a mobile world where anybody can compete on an equal footing and where service replaces distribution as the main competitive advantage might seem remote.
It'll be interesting to see where we're at in two years. :)
What networks and hardware must these "cell phone killers" run on? Oh... right... The popular mobile Internet services are EVDO or 3G - cellular networks. And the hardware this Skype is running on? Cell phones or cellular equipped devices for the most part.
So no, this does not kill cell phones, if anything, it increases demand for a large cellular network. This article may have actually been newsworthy if it wasn't with the premise that Skype was somehow going to "kill" cell phones.