From TFA "If the PlayStation 3 is priced below Toshiba's $500 player, it could double as the poor man's Blu-Ray player and undercut Sony's partners."
I never really thought about the economics until I read that statement. Imagine the PS3 arriving on the shelves at $499. This would be in direct competition against the XBOX 360 and Toshibas' HD-DVD. The other Blue-Ray manufacturers will in no doubt require substantial margins to recoup development and production costs (some of the players will demand premiums well over $1000). Are Blue-Ray partners willing to sacrifice profits to help Sony wage the their console war?
At this point, I think Sony have painted themselves into a corner. They will either have to compete directly against MS (and subsequently piss off their allies) or price the PS3 along side other Blue-Ray manufacturers and virtually assure themselves of slow PS3 adoption. This will get nasty.
Domino has advantages and security is the best feature. But, administrating the damn thing is a nightmare. Especially the end users: Replication, ACL's, archiving, person docs, desktops and nsf's just to name a few. Multiply that by a thousand users, a couple of sales guys on the road and an pissed off manager and there goes your day. The real fun begins when you start playing with id files: name changes, accessing email on different computers and lost id's (yes, it does happen). And I won't even mention corrupt databases.
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From TFA "If the PlayStation 3 is priced below Toshiba's $500 player, it could double as the poor man's Blu-Ray player and undercut Sony's partners." I never really thought about the economics until I read that statement. Imagine the PS3 arriving on the shelves at $499. This would be in direct competition against the XBOX 360 and Toshibas' HD-DVD. The other Blue-Ray manufacturers will in no doubt require substantial margins to recoup development and production costs (some of the players will demand premiums well over $1000). Are Blue-Ray partners willing to sacrifice profits to help Sony wage the their console war? At this point, I think Sony have painted themselves into a corner. They will either have to compete directly against MS (and subsequently piss off their allies) or price the PS3 along side other Blue-Ray manufacturers and virtually assure themselves of slow PS3 adoption. This will get nasty.
Didn't RIM try to do this? Look where it got them.
Domino has advantages and security is the best feature. But, administrating the damn thing is a nightmare. Especially the end users: Replication, ACL's, archiving, person docs, desktops and nsf's just to name a few. Multiply that by a thousand users, a couple of sales guys on the road and an pissed off manager and there goes your day. The real fun begins when you start playing with id files: name changes, accessing email on different computers and lost id's (yes, it does happen). And I won't even mention corrupt databases.
You're right. I hope that was a typo.