CEO: Ok... looks like we're going to have to lose a few people...
PR: But... the public will hate us!
COO: Let's relocate sales and marketing to Podunk, AL
CEO and PR: What a glorius idea!!
Seems like it is a nice way to cut your workforce in half...(or in a tenth)
Except if....
One week later
Stockholder: You dumb #$%@s! We had 5000 people quit and it brought our share prices down
Cheers!
Assuming the iPhone is a hit amongst GSM users, to truly expand, Sprint, Verizon and all the CDMA networks may be the biggest obstacle to iPhone's success. Once people get addicted to their iPhones, at it's pricing, they'd want to keep it for a while. Will that be possible?
The best solution IMO, is for them to build in the hardware for all the major networks into the device (which ought to be possible). I'd buy a phone just for that capability. Then perhaps you can have phone usage on one network and data plans on another.
Alternatively, akin to something I am considering, one could buy a phone with 3Gness and run a VoIP service or Skype on it 24/7 and thereby use it as a phone... If the iPhone manages that, who knows...
I'd say a dangerous web is vital to those of us who learnt things the hard way. I am not uber-1337, but I learnt from experience that that downloading cracks leads you to pages with naked chicks on them and then 2 weeks later your computer slows down. I learnt to google (actually it was megaspider back then) for stuff as a means to find reliable information rather than blindly believe things people say online. To some extent, giving a kid an unrestricted broadband connection and letting him learn from his/her mistakes is the best way to make a good netizen. However, this ought to be accompanied by some tools & words of wisdom for younger kids like "Use wikipedia to verify stuff", "It's easy for you to lie on the internet" etc...
Maybe I am just wrong about this issue, but I think I was helped in becoming a good netizen by my personal sense of morality and my parents inability to understand what a computer was for and their consequent rejection of the pipes.
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CEO: Ok... looks like we're going to have to lose a few people... PR: But... the public will hate us! COO: Let's relocate sales and marketing to Podunk, AL CEO and PR: What a glorius idea!! Seems like it is a nice way to cut your workforce in half...(or in a tenth) Except if.... One week later Stockholder: You dumb #$%@s! We had 5000 people quit and it brought our share prices down Cheers!
Assuming the iPhone is a hit amongst GSM users, to truly expand, Sprint, Verizon and all the CDMA networks may be the biggest obstacle to iPhone's success. Once people get addicted to their iPhones, at it's pricing, they'd want to keep it for a while. Will that be possible?
The best solution IMO, is for them to build in the hardware for all the major networks into the device (which ought to be possible). I'd buy a phone just for that capability. Then perhaps you can have phone usage on one network and data plans on another.
Alternatively, akin to something I am considering, one could buy a phone with 3Gness and run a VoIP service or Skype on it 24/7 and thereby use it as a phone... If the iPhone manages that, who knows...
Cheers!
I'd say a dangerous web is vital to those of us who learnt things the hard way. I am not uber-1337, but I learnt from experience that that downloading cracks leads you to pages with naked chicks on them and then 2 weeks later your computer slows down. I learnt to google (actually it was megaspider back then) for stuff as a means to find reliable information rather than blindly believe things people say online. To some extent, giving a kid an unrestricted broadband connection and letting him learn from his/her mistakes is the best way to make a good netizen. However, this ought to be accompanied by some tools & words of wisdom for younger kids like "Use wikipedia to verify stuff", "It's easy for you to lie on the internet" etc...
Maybe I am just wrong about this issue, but I think I was helped in becoming a good netizen by my personal sense of morality and my parents inability to understand what a computer was for and their consequent rejection of the pipes.
Cheers!