Why Not?

Take one from the left and one from the right,
repeat until all combinations are available.

I want to mix and match all things.

I want to use flickr to store my photos but maybe my friend prefers to view with Picasa, why cant he?

I want to announce via twitter but my friend wants to receive via iChat, why cant she?

I want to talk on my pc but my friend wants to receive the call on her mobile….She CAN!

Because the terms, conditions, the basic usage policies and interconnect agreements have been made, we are able to make calls to almost anywhere in the world.

Why cant data pass this way in this era of cloud computing?

Why cant we forge open standards of communication that allow room for expansion and interconnect and are not just elaborate walled gardens?

Why Not? is the question for the future!

 

Steve Jobs iPod Touch Updates

The iPhone 3G brings with it many great updates, including the App Store.

 

Yet as before Apple has chosen to tax the poor iPod Touch users.

This is a loss of trust for many people and thats much more of an important issue than $10 it costs to purchase the update.

The thing is Apple tried the market, you all gave in to the first update so now they are going to screw you every time there is an update. 

This, for me, makes the iPod Touch now a no-go and has made me decide that I will not now rush to purchase any new iPod that comes along.

That sounds major but the iPod as we knew it is effectively dead, the high end product is the iPhone, the iPod nano will effectively replace the iPod. If you have an iPod Touch you have a hobbled iPhone.

It will therefore become cheaper in future to manufacture and sell you an iPhone with no-sim, you get your iPod functionality and Apple get the possibility of you using that SIM card slot at some point in the future. That is surely the direction in which things are going?

That means you will have to pay for future iPhone upgrades? After all, there is a market there, why would they not? They are a company, not a charity.

With millions of users worldwide it suddenly becomes worth charging even $1.

And what of OS X updates or iLife updates that often add functionality? Should we pay for those too? Maybe we will have to, after all there is now an App Store from whence to purchase them!

That is why I moaned so much when the first update came out, we should never have accepted it then, all we did was set the path in stone for the future.

And if Apple can charge for updates, then so can Microsoft and all the other companies that follow in their respective wakes. This is a much bigger change than we may initially see!

P.S. Paying for an upgrade that allows access to the App Store, should that not have been free to allow all to access the App Store apps? Kind of shot yourself in the foot there perhaps? REVENGE! Slightly, partially, yummy! LOL