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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (129484)	6/2/2003 5:36:15 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 152472

Gidday C2. What do you mean unwittingly? As engineer and I [and others] have been ranting for years, the pipeline is the killer app. The useless service providers are trying to ring-fence subscribers to make them buy selected "apps". As you say, all we want is a wide-open low-cost, high-speed pipeline into our brains. Well, yes and no. My point--and the point I understand Dr. J. is currently making--is that the choices the consumer will have in the future--video, photos, text, SMS, MMS, games, porn[!], music, ring tones, all the apps currently being developed by the BREW Boys, gaming, and who-knows-what-else in the future, etc. etc., ad nauseum, makes the smorgasbord itself, not simply an individual item or two, the killer app. A teenager from Latvia who happens to be a San Antonio Spurs fan and likes Led Zeppelin ringtones will customize his phone to suit his needs while a straight-laced businessman from Des Moines will program his wireless device to do something else entirely, like follow pork belly or corn futures. Naturally, this will require bandwidth, and on that point I completely agree with you. It's nice to see Q at the intersection of all this.