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The Telecom Digest for January 8, 2014
Volume 33 : Issue 6 : "text" Format
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The Hybrid Tablet Temptation (Monty Solomon)
Shameless Carriers (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 02:33:46 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: The Hybrid Tablet Temptation
Message-ID: <p06240825cef00cc0667c@[10.0.1.11]>

The Hybrid Tablet Temptation

Jan 5, 2014
By Jean-Louis Gassée
Monday Note

In no small part, the iPad's success comes from its uncompromising Do
Less To Do More philosophy. Now a reasonably mature product, can the
iPad expand its uses without falling into the hybrid PC/tablet trap?

When the iPad came out, almost four years ago, it was immediately
misunderstood by industry insiders - and joyously embraced by normal
humans. Just Google "iPad naysayer" for a few nuggets of iPad
negativism. Even Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, couldn't avoid the
derivative trap: He saw the new object as a mere evolution of an
existing one and shrugged off the iPad as a bigger phone. Schmidt
should have known better, he had been an Apple director in the days
when Jobs believed the two companies were "natural allies".

I was no wiser. I got my first iPad on launch day and was immediately
disappointed. My new tablet wouldn't let me do the what I did on my
MacBook Air - or my tiny EeePC running Windows Xp (not Vista!). For
example, writing a Monday Note on an iPad was a practical
impossibility - and still is.

...

http://www.mondaynote.com/2014/01/05/the-hybrid-tablet-temptation/




Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 02:31:20 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Shameless Carriers
Message-ID: <p06240823cef00adbf4cd@[10.0.1.11]>

Shameless Carriers

Dec 15, 2013
By Jean-Louis Gassée
Monday Note

Wireless carriers used to rule smartphone suppliers. In 2007, Steve
Jobs upended such rules. Why can't the carriers accept the change and
enjoy the revenues the iPhone generates for them? and why do tech
journalists encourage their whining?

Until about two weeks ago, it seemed that our major wireless carriers
had given up whining about the unjust subsidies imposed by a certain
overly-confident (they said) handset maker. I hoped that their
silence on the topic meant that they had finally realized that the
extra revenue (ARPU) generated by these smartphones more than made up
for the "subsidy burden", for the exorbitant amounts of money that
(they thought) ended up in the wrong coffers.

Then, I saw this headline:

"REVEALED: How YOU PAY extra for IPHONES - even if you DON'T HAVE ONE"

...

http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/12/15/shameless-carriers/






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