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This should be called "Why You Can't Build a Smartphone Ecosystem" Building the phone itself is easier, license the software from google, develop some cool har
by Aloha 13y ago
This should be called "Why You Can't Build a Smartphone Ecosystem"
Building the phone itself is easier, license the software from google, develop some cool hardware, build and sell it.
Admittedly, selling it is probably the hardest part, hard to innovate on features, you can innovate in packaging, price, assembly place, any number of other things.
If you have a big enough bucket of money, you could build a new ecosystem, it wont be easy though. Even without the bucket of money you could build a new ecosystem - but you might only capture 2-5% of the market.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoAnother far-out option is building a solution not dependent on the carriers, which have already captured the IP space. There is no more internet, it's all just "telecom" now. That's the first mistake people make when starting an "internet" business. Business is reliant on communication and your communication is reliant on telecom. It's pretty much the same landscape as before the internet existed.