A collection of things
A collection of things
Interesting bit from Doc and Dave: World of Ends
The most interesting little bit is number 6:
"Money moves to the suburbs.
If all of the Internet’s value is at its edges, Internet connectivity itself wants to become a commodity. It should be allowed to do so.
There’s good business in providing commodities, but every attempt to add value to the Internet itself must be resisted. To be specific: Those who provide Internet connectivity inevitably will want to provide content and services also because they connectivity itself will be too low-priced. By keeping the two functions separate, we will enable the market to set prices that will maximize access and to maximize content/service innovation."
Um, how is this not in direct contradiction of the free-fi arguement? If connectivity is a commodity and selling commodities is good. Is there a distinction with free-fi that I'm not seeing?
Posted by Matt at March 7, 2003 03:37 PM