Appliance Smackdown

From Berkman@10
Revision as of 13:56, 16 May 2008 by 140.247.243.143 (talk)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Mobile and PC Convergence

Hardware - Nokia person describes difficulty in distinguishing between mobile devices and PCs for purposes of software licensing

Network infrastructure - e.g. Wimax


Mobile and PC Divergence

Regulatory systems

Usage patterns

  • information seeking
  • information sharing (ability of people to make available the information they think their communities need)
  • entertainment (movies, downloading ringtones) - gateway drug to generativity?

Markets and business models

  • Remittance industry is going to collapse because of mobile phone wealth transfer


Generativity

Is the market proving JZ wrong?

Does hacker mentality play out in the market?

  • Forced generativity in developing countries

What is generativity for phones? There's got to be a PC in the mix to write the code for the unlocked iPhone.