True, but it's a product announcement from Rob Lord, one of the two guys who started IUMA way back near the beginning of the web age. A product announcement from somebody with a history of creating products that were ahead of their time is worth paying attention to. He was running a hugely successful online music site 5 years before most of the world had even considered the idea.
As a former competitor of Rob's, I'd take him seriously; he knows what he's doing, at least with regards to technology. (He didn't know how IUMA was going to make money either; he probably should have thought more about that.) Of course there's no guarantee that Songbird will be a success, but based on Rob's track record, I'd say it'll be worth seeing what he comes up with.
I think the question is, "what percentage of the people looking to buy jumbo jets peruse the web for information", and I think the answer is likely "nearly all of them".
Decisions like that are made by many, many people, over a long period of time, with many sources of info. Sure, you wouldn't likely order one from Amazon.com without first getting an in-person pitch, but for initial "what if" discussions, of course they would check the website first.;
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True, but it's a product announcement from Rob Lord, one of the two guys who started IUMA way back near the beginning of the web age. A product announcement from somebody with a history of creating products that were ahead of their time is worth paying attention to. He was running a hugely successful online music site 5 years before most of the world had even considered the idea.
As a former competitor of Rob's, I'd take him seriously; he knows what he's doing, at least with regards to technology. (He didn't know how IUMA was going to make money either; he probably should have thought more about that.) Of course there's no guarantee that Songbird will be a success, but based on Rob's track record, I'd say it'll be worth seeing what he comes up with.
I think the question is, "what percentage of the people looking to buy jumbo jets peruse the web for information", and I think the answer is likely "nearly all of them".
Decisions like that are made by many, many people, over a long period of time, with many sources of info. Sure, you wouldn't likely order one from Amazon.com without first getting an in-person pitch, but for initial "what if" discussions, of course they would check the website first.;