Nokia's direction?? Elop went in saying he wanted to lead the company through a "disruption". I think you are suffering from the ant's perspective of the elephant here. Elop is not a hard core softie and has worked across the tech industry.
Having a lower cost OS for feature phones is smart, because no matter how close Elop is to msft Nokia still has to pay licensing fees for WP7.
Your "market forces are always better" response works great where there is a market. Just like rural electrification, it will eventually become a priority to provide broadband access to all citizens. I think what woodsrunner is saying is that other countries are doing a better job of this than we are.
If it is a priority for a government that all citizens have comparable access you could easily require the providers to serve rural areas as well as metro areas. The government has already contributed here and should be able to leverage it's investment better. I believe that cable providers are granted monopolies on the coax infrastructure and DSL providers use a government subsidized telephone infrastructure. I think that these priveleges should come with responsibility to ensure that all citizen can participate.
Here is what Cringley said about it:
The basis of utility regulation is that for the privilege of being allowed to have a monopoly, utilities have to accept obligations in the form of reasonable profits and additional public services. These privileges and obligations are supposed to balance each other. But what happens if you take away the obligations, as the FCC appears to be consistently doing? Then all that's left is privilege.
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Nokia's direction?? Elop went in saying he wanted to lead the company through a "disruption". I think you are suffering from the ant's perspective of the elephant here. Elop is not a hard core softie and has worked across the tech industry.
Having a lower cost OS for feature phones is smart, because no matter how close Elop is to msft Nokia still has to pay licensing fees for WP7.
If it is a priority for a government that all citizens have comparable access you could easily require the providers to serve rural areas as well as metro areas. The government has already contributed here and should be able to leverage it's investment better. I believe that cable providers are granted monopolies on the coax infrastructure and DSL providers use a government subsidized telephone infrastructure. I think that these priveleges should come with responsibility to ensure that all citizen can participate.
Here is what Cringley said about it: