{"id":101542,"date":"2009-12-19T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-3660841388434390406"},"modified":"2009-12-24T01:31:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T06:31:05","slug":"google-vs-apple-stross-on-the-phone-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/101542","title":{"rendered":"Google vs. Apple &#8211; Stross on the phone wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Stross is a literate geek who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/fiction\/index.html\">makes a living inventing plausible worlds<\/a>. That&#8217;s why he can write one of the best tech posts of 2009 &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2009\/12\/21st_century_phone.html\">Charlie&#8217;s Diary: Gadget Patrol: 21st century phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; I think Google is pursuing a grand strategic vision of destroying the cellco&#8217;s entire business model \u2014 of positioning themselves as value-added gatekeepers providing metered access to content \u2014 and their second-string model of locking users in by selling them premium handsets (such as the iPhone) on a rolling contract.<\/p>\n<p>They intend to turn 3G data service (and subsequently, LTE) into a commodity, like wifi hotspot service only more widespread and cheaper to get at. They want to get consumers to buy unlocked SIM-free handsets and pick cheap data SIMs. They&#8217;d love to move everyone to cheap data SIMs rather than the hideously convoluted legacy voice stacks maintained by the telcos; then they could piggyback Google Voice on it, and ultimately do the Google thing to all your voice messages as well as your email and web access&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Please go now and read the entire essay &#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8230; Fun, isn&#8217;t it? Charlie can write.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Charlie compares Apple to high end and luxury auto companies. It&#8217;s an old metaphor, but it works. Extending that metaphor, what Google wants to do is deliver the Model T platform &#8212; a super-cheap internet-connected phone and netbook for use in Detroit, Seoul, Kabul and Kampala.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2010 will be a very interesting tech year.<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/><small><a href=\"feed:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/public\/atom\/user\/06457543619879090746\/state\/com.google\/broadcast\">My Google Reader Shared items (feed)<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-3660841388434390406?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Stross is a literate geek who makes a living inventing plausible worlds. That&#8217;s why he can write one of the best tech posts of 2009 &#8230; Charlie&#8217;s Diary: Gadget Patrol: 21st century phone &#8230; I think Google is pursuing a grand strategic vision of destroying the cellco&#8217;s entire business model \u2014 of positioning themselves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}