If Jobs does intend to open the box sometime down the road, then he'd better make those intentions known at this time and give some guidance concerning what areas he intends to open.
Why should he do that?
After the hype dies down and enterprise purchasing departments go about formulating plans for their next rounds of wireless contracts, iPhone's shortcomings will be seen as far more limiting than its mere inability to support the immersive qualities of Skype.
Probably an advantage to not support Skype, but whether did or did not, doesn't seem to answer why Jobs should open up so that the competition can stick it to him. I guess I should leave that specialty to Frankston since he doesn't have anything to contribute except his insight,
There is a huge IT market to be concerned about, as well, lest employees be mandated to use multiple voice and data appliances where a single one would, or should, suffice.
Think so? I prefer having several dedicated function devices that have simple, intuitive, interfaces with flat relearning curves.
This is not the ordinary CES gadget release. A device of this type should portend to supplant other devices that currently support a wide array of both entertainment and business solutions, like the ability to support Asterisk-like clients, FMC, WLAN roaming, and other applications governed by enterprise IT designs, to name just a few. Apple may soon find that a lockup can work both ways."
Excessive functionality is a bane to all device mfgers, but if the cost to add extra functionality is infinitesimal as it seems is the case, there's no reason not to add it.
I'm not sure what AAPL is locking out with iPhone(iComE). The keyboard is good enough though to induce me to get rid of my MOT Razr for it. When companies go open they don't make money and they end up going bust or they get merged. You have to make people pay in order to get something good. |
