Appliance Smackdown: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:58, 16 May 2008

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?

JZ doesn't make the assertion that people prefer generative devices. What he says is that the network and the overall cloud does better when the technology is generative. The issue is that when we study usage patterns or try to determine what people are doing, it's pretty easy with sterile devices. With generative devices, the question is what could people do

Does hacker mentality play out in the market?

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

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 Is the market proving JZ wrong?
-* JZ doesn't make the assertion that people prefer generative devices.  What he says is that the network and the overall cloud does better when the technology is generative.
+* JZ doesn't make the assertion that people prefer generative devices.  What he says is that the network and the overall cloud does better when the technology is generative.  The issue is that when we study usage patterns or try to determine what people are doing, it's pretty easy with sterile devices.  With generative devices, the question is what '''could''' people do
 Does hacker mentality play out in the market?