Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers? Date: Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 10:17:40AM -0400 Quoting Jay Ashworth (jra@baylink.com):
Gambling means that sometimes you lose. Alas, the costs won't be on Apple.
This seems to be an ongoing situation: carriers discovering that they also bet wrong on how to engineer the network: they've been making the beams thinner and thinner, and then along came something reasonably rational... that was heavy enough to break them.
Anyone betting carriers will stop gambling quite so hard, and build networks the way John Roebling built bridges?
Well put. I find it hard to blame the users for using the network. That is what they pay the provider for. Any implicit assumptions about _how_ users should use the network are simply corners cut to make things cheaper. Gambling. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 JAPAN is a WONDERFUL planet -- I wonder if we'll ever reach their level of COMPARATIVE SHOPPING ...