Saturday, July 20, 2002
Microsoft's share of the cell phone market in 2010 - 0%?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 06:00 AM
http://portals.devx.com/Brew/Article/6715
According to the author, Symbian and Palm won't be doing much better. About the same actually - 0%. Stewart Alsop, a onetime editor-in-chief of PC industry newspaper InfoWorld, an entrepreneur, and a longtime PC industry pundit, puts more stock in Qualcomm's Brew. Why is he so high on BREW?
"The carrier gets a BREW server through which all its customers access, download, and pay for apps. Customers from Carrier A can't get apps from another server somewhere else, because everything is keyed to the carrier's own server and own handsets. The apps delivered through the BREW system are certified to work with those handsets, and the BREW delivery system can check the handset for proper con figuration - so BREW-delivered apps are unlikely to crash the phone. And the BREW billing system gives the carrier a share of the commerce going through their system."
That's right! BREW ensures the carrier is not relegated to a dumb pipe, controls what apps you can buy, download and use. I don't know about you, but I am hoping that Microsoft, Symbian, Palm and probably two or three as yet uninvented operating systems squash this line of thinking. Can you imagine if what you installed and ran on your PC was controlled by the manufacturer, or if your internet experience was controlled by your ISP? Why, some of you might not get to read this fine web site!
Go read the article then come back and vote in the poll. I am curious to hear what you think. Source: Jimmy Dodd
According to the author, Symbian and Palm won't be doing much better. About the same actually - 0%. Stewart Alsop, a onetime editor-in-chief of PC industry newspaper InfoWorld, an entrepreneur, and a longtime PC industry pundit, puts more stock in Qualcomm's Brew. Why is he so high on BREW?
"The carrier gets a BREW server through which all its customers access, download, and pay for apps. Customers from Carrier A can't get apps from another server somewhere else, because everything is keyed to the carrier's own server and own handsets. The apps delivered through the BREW system are certified to work with those handsets, and the BREW delivery system can check the handset for proper con figuration - so BREW-delivered apps are unlikely to crash the phone. And the BREW billing system gives the carrier a share of the commerce going through their system."
That's right! BREW ensures the carrier is not relegated to a dumb pipe, controls what apps you can buy, download and use. I don't know about you, but I am hoping that Microsoft, Symbian, Palm and probably two or three as yet uninvented operating systems squash this line of thinking. Can you imagine if what you installed and ran on your PC was controlled by the manufacturer, or if your internet experience was controlled by your ISP? Why, some of you might not get to read this fine web site!
Go read the article then come back and vote in the poll. I am curious to hear what you think. Source: Jimmy Dodd
