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Competition isn't intrinsically beneficial. Within the Android ecosystem, all you get is pseudo-competition: none of the players are interested in making Androi
by apl 16y ago
Competition isn't intrinsically beneficial. Within the Android ecosystem, all you get is pseudo-competition: none of the players are interested in making Android any more open than it has to be.
- bad_user 16y agoThat depends on market forces that change by definition and it is definitely not a rule. Android gives the possibility of building unlocked phones ... from there it's just an issue of customer-demand. If only one manufacturer, like HTC or maybe Samsung, has success with an unlocked phone, the others will start replicating the recipe.
- ThomPete 16y agoIt's not about customer-demand, it's about big enterprise logic.
- vetinari 16y agoBig enterprise logic changes the same way, as cash flow changes. It is called "vote with your wallet" for a reason.
- ThomPete 16y agoIt doesn't change the way you seem to be assuming. Big enterprise havs cash cows and until those cash cows are gone they will be making all sorts of ego driven decisions. You would be surprised how much is driven by individuals and how little is driven by rationality. There are states within the states with their own motives. It is my experience that besides with the cash cows, it's anything but rational decisions that are being made in most cases.
- vetinari 16y ago> You would be surprised how much is driven by individuals and how little is driven by rationality. Oh, I wouldn't, I see it every day. Thank god for consultants, you can bring them in, and they will say the obvious/rational thing.
- ThomPete 16y agoWell then you know that enterprise logic far from always are rational.
- bad_user 16y agoI'm not seeing HP or Dell selling locked Windows PCs on which you cannot install Linux.
- ThomPete 16y agoLet's get straight on what we are discussing here. We are talking normal consumers no hackers. No one beside a small fraction of this world cares what operating system they have or can have. They change OS when they buy a new computer.
- bad_user 16y agoTrusted Computing (this shit Apple is doing right now with the iTunes store and iOS) was dismissed by consumers and by hardware manufacturers (besides Intel). Normal people don't care for their OS, but they care about installing whatever they want on their PC, no matter the source or function. And you know what? All the friends I have with non-technical skills that own a gaming consoles (about a dozen of them) ... have had those consoles unlocked. The reason gaming consoles come locked is piracy, since most profits come from selling games. This is not the same situation with PCs or with phones for that matter.
- ThomPete 16y agoI hope you are just joking. Dismissed as reflected in what? Apples latest quarterly results? Their overall success? How has the consumer dismissed trusted computing. Normal people don't install things. It's really as simple as that. Before the iphone most people didn't even know what an app was.
- bad_user 16y agoTrusted Computing is a technology that was promoted by the Trusted Computing Group (IBM, Intel, Microsoft, HP, big enough for you?). Over 90% of PCs are Wintel. Apple's market is a niche. Apple's shit I'm talking about is similar, but different: we aren't talking about over 1 billion people (more like 50 million). > Normal people don't install things You're the one that must be joking.