[opendtv] Re: Global CIO: Steve Jobs Creating New-Age Broadcasting Network?
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 14:30:28 -0600
Craig Birkmaier posted:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228200358
> Global CIO: Steve Jobs Creating New-Age Broadcasting Network?
> Apple's massive new $1 billion data center could become the
> hub for an all-streaming broadcast network, says big-thinker
> Nick Carr.
> By Bob Evans, InformationWeek
> Nov. 8, 2010
....
> While others might call Apple's nearly complete $1-billion facility
> a data center, Jobs might be calling it his all-digital,
> all-customizable, all-streaming, and all-Apple broadcasting system
> and network of the future.
Just the sort of thing I steer clear of.
> If that's the case, then Apple's new broadcasting-type business will
> extend the company's zealous efforts to avoid the "open" approach,
> a hard-line stand that Apple insists results in better experiences
> for users because it gives Apple and its customers end-to-end control
Of course they insist. It's in their interest to do so.
> The concepts of "open" and "closed" are inside-the-industry artifacts
> that are losing their relevance in the wake of new approaches to
> applications. If the App Store has tens or hundreds of thousands of
> products available from tens of thousands of developers, just how
> "closed" or "un-open" can that be?
The expected apology, or rationalization. Closed means, I have to buy their
products to use the network. It's really quite simple.
Bert
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