Beeing doomed and living happily with it
2009-03-12 22:42:51 by Fabio FornoToday I had an "interesting" exchange of point of views with some people working at a large mobile operator, and the result has been enlightening. Their business model is still the same model that didn't work in the nineties for close portals like MSN or AOL, thinking to owe both the Internet and users, and they don't really get that:
- with the iPhone and Android, that they are happily selling, no user will consent a locked down network access
- the later they realize that their closed services don't work (e.g. all their closed and unused messengers), the harder they'll be hit by the market
- once users have tried some sort of freedon, they don't get back any more
