Asmodeus
join:2004-05-26
Spring Valley, CA | it's the AOL syndrome all over again... basically the need for these providers to provide content rather than managing an actual network that can get their users to whatever content they want stems from what I call the AOL syndrome... AOL at one time was the biggest game in town, unfortunately what they did was market themselves as not only a provider of content, but as the actual gateway to the internet itself... many people that were AOL customers and who weren't savvy about the internet or how it was constructed took this as the defacto for what the internet is; that AOL was the internet and whatever content they had on their stemmed from the internet that AOL is as well...
now you look at comcast, yahoo, google, at&t, et al. and you see what they are doing is following the AOL model of content provider while cloaking the fact that they are nothing but a dumb pipe provider... it's a shell game and always has been... none of these companies can afford to give up the shell of being a content provider for the sake of being a simple network provider because there is to much money at stake, to much name branding at stake, and to much advertising dollars that would go away, namely from the entertainment and 'intertainment' industry...
nokia's ceo asked a novel question, but he asked it from a perspective that nokia takes, which is simply being a one trick pony of designing and manufacturing phones for upper tier providers of the service their phones will be used for... in essence they are just plain vanilla while their product goes to the sundae makers... that is from their perspective and their perspective isn't in line with the content providers... |
