[opendtv] Verizon Takes Down its Garden Walls
- From: "Mark A. Aitken" <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:05:45 -0500
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/11/27/verizon-takes-down-its-garden-walls/
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Verizon Takes Down its Garden Walls
Posted By _Ben Worthen_ On November 27, 2007 @ 1:08 pm In _News_ | _No
Comments_
Verizon may turn your cellphone into a better business tool. The carrier
said it will allow
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119617188870905241.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology>
people to use any device and access any application on its wireless
network, the latest sign that mobile devices are on their way to
becoming as useful as PCs are today.
Traditionally, wireless carriers have exerted tight control over what
devices and software people could use on their networks. This approach
is known as a "walled garden," because there's a whole world of
interesting but hard-to-control stuff out there that the company is
protecting its customers from. AOL and others used the same approach in
the early days of the Internet. Rather than having people go off and
find news or chat rooms on the big bad scary Web, these companies came
up with their own sanitized versions of these services.
It didn't work: No single company could keep pace with all the
innovation that was taking place on the entire Internet. Now, Verizon is
admitting that the model won't work for mobile devices either.
The obvious trigger for Veizon's decision is Google's plan to build
tools that will let anyone develop software for mobile devices. In
Google's world view, mobile devices are about to go through the same
sort of software boom that PCs went through over the last decade.
There's no telling what developers will come up with, but Google is
betting that they'll come up with interesting and innovative stuff that
people will want to use.
Eventually, an ecosystem will evolve around phones that rivals (and
possibly exceeds) the one around PCs. Given the role that the PC plays
in the average person's life -- both professionally and personally --
it's fair to say this is going to be a big deal.
From a business-tech standpoint, workers should expect software for
mobile devices that will make them more productive and generally improve
their lives. We can't tell you exactly what this software will be --- if
we knew we'd develop it --- but we can assure you it will happen.
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