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Cable is building apps for your TV
- jmtame 18y agoI share the same skepticism towards telecom as Lawrence Lessig. In short: they've always been slow to innovate, they only look after their bottom line, and they stifle innovation. Comcast will not build anything before hackers get to it. Comcast will do what they've been doing all along: protecting their profits. I'll be surprised if they finish this open platform and if it doesn't suck.
- tsally 18y agoOh, only over a decade after the technology industry? The only thing large telecoms are good for is price fixing. The cost of a text message is nowhere near 10 cents. In a free market, the price wold never stay so far inflated. We should break all telecoms up into much smaller companies. The competition would ensure that we see some real innovation and fair prices for the consumers.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoit doesn't require anything so proactive. simply remove the regulations that prevent competition and the current players will crash and burn.
- stcredzero 18y agoThe article calls the iPhone an "open system." That doesn't give me warm and fuzzy feelings about the author's knowledge.
- wmf 18y agoCompared to "OpenCable", the iPhone is open.
- stcredzero 18y agoI lack warm and fuzzy feeling for all of the above, then!