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We can only hope that it'll work out in our favor and they can stop preaching to us how we should use their bandwidth.
"Apple iMessage is a classic example. If you're using iMessage, you're not using one of our messaging services, right?" It's hard to believe this is a real quote by such a senior executive. If the profitability of your business is so significantly based on a hack (SMS) that you stay awake at night worrying about it, and you didn't bother innovating by developing a real solution to the problem (pervasive real-time com…
Real question: Where are they going to recover that profitability from?
The iMessage thing is, IMO, the more interesting comment. Apple has effectively ripped a revenue stream away from the providers, and they can't do much about it apart from raise prices for other stuff. They're not alone, of course- BBM does the same thing. But they're all disjointed networks, which plays into the provider's hands right now. People still need text plans to contact people on other devices. I wonder if…
Probably not. There have been dozens of challengers (Kik, Beluga, WhatsApp), no one has gathered the ubiquity or reliability of SMS. The one one I can conceive of hitting that goal is Facebook, and at the moment they don't seem to be trying too hard.
"Apple iMessage is a classic example. If you're using iMessage, you're not using one of our messaging services, right?" It's hard to believe this is a real quote by such a senior executive. If the profitability of your business is so significantly based on a hack (SMS) that you stay awake at night worrying about it, and you didn't bother innovating by developing a real solution to the problem (pervasive real-time com…
Despite SMS being a hack that costs carriers (essentially) nothing to send [1], the reality of this situation is that telcos will be/are quickly losing one of their largest profit points to services like iMessage. Real question: Where are they going to recover that profitability from? [1] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/12/text-messages-c/
"Apple iMessage is a classic example. If you're using iMessage, you're not using one of our messaging services, right?" It's hard to believe this is a real quote by such a senior executive. If the profitability of your business is so significantly based on a hack (SMS) that you stay awake at night worrying about it, and you didn't bother innovating by developing a real solution to the problem (pervasive real-time com…
If your shifting your model to selling data, wouldn't you want to make it as easy as possible for your customers to consume more data?
I don't get it. If tethering was free, I'd use more of it, and happily pay for it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Despite SMS being a hack that costs carriers (essentially) nothing to send [1], the reality of this situation is that telcos will be/are quickly losing one of their largest profit points to services like iMessage. Real question: Where are they going to recover that profitability from? [1] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/12/text-messages-c/
Providing value over what a 500 loc client app and a 50 loc Node.js server can offer would be a good start.
"Apple iMessage is a classic example. If you're using iMessage, you're not using one of our messaging services, right?" It's hard to believe this is a real quote by such a senior executive. If the profitability of your business is so significantly based on a hack (SMS) that you stay awake at night worrying about it, and you didn't bother innovating by developing a real solution to the problem (pervasive real-time com…
Despite SMS being a hack that costs carriers (essentially) nothing to send [1], the reality of this situation is that telcos will be/are quickly losing one of their largest profit points to services like iMessage. Real question: Where are they going to recover that profitability from? [1] http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/12/text-messages-c/
They won't. They'll eventually need to adapt to the reality of their business, which is to move data from one point to another. They'll get to decide how to monetize their dumb pipes but their current SMS business model won't last.
Time moves on and the pipes get commoditized. I hope congress chooses to side with the people rather than mandate profits for the corporations to whom we lease our airwaves.
In the end AT&T and the other carriers don't want to be "dumb pipes", but that's what consumers want. Can you imagine the same applied to water? "I'm sorry sir, but we know you used an unapproved toilet AND you went over your allotted shower minutes this month." We can only hope that it'll work out in our favor and they can stop preaching to us how we should use their bandwidth.
I don't get unlimited water for a monthly fee, I get charged per gallon. I'd imagine virtually all people have this situation.
Utilities - water, electricity, gas, etc. - compare to AT&T's new model better than their unlimited one.