Comments on: Do Consumers Care about Open Access? http://skydeck.com/blog/mobile-market/do-consumers-care-about-open-access Your Cell Phone Online Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:47:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: London Calling » Carnival of the Mobilists #107 is up at www.mobhappy.com http://skydeck.com/blog/mobile-market/do-consumers-care-about-open-access/comment-page-1#comment-742 London Calling » Carnival of the Mobilists #107 is up at www.mobhappy.com Sat, 10 May 2008 14:34:07 +0000 http://skydeck.com/blog/mobilemarket/do-consumers-care-about-open-access/#comment-742 [...] Over at the Skydeck blog, Jason wonders if American consumers really care about open access. [...] [...] Over at the Skydeck blog, Jason wonders if American consumers really care about open access. [...]

]]> By: Raoul Duke http://skydeck.com/blog/mobile-market/do-consumers-care-about-open-access/comment-page-1#comment-741 Raoul Duke Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:00:47 +0000 http://skydeck.com/blog/mobilemarket/do-consumers-care-about-open-access/#comment-741 Reminds me of how the cable TV companies seem to say "our studies show that users don't want to be able to buy things a la carte, they actually want to get all those channels they don't want to ever watch. and, honest, even if they wanted a la carte the economics wouldn't work out. trust us." Which in some ways I can maybe sorta believe (like, the Stanford shopping center i think does some slush fundy stuff so that less-frequented shops can still exist there), but in lots of ways I can't - I really don't care about / don't want a lot of channels in the cable package. Reminds me of how the cable TV companies seem to say “our studies show that users don’t want to be able to buy things a la carte, they actually want to get all those channels they don’t want to ever watch. and, honest, even if they wanted a la carte the economics wouldn’t work out. trust us.” Which in some ways I can maybe sorta believe (like, the Stanford shopping center i think does some slush fundy stuff so that less-frequented shops can still exist there), but in lots of ways I can’t – I really don’t care about / don’t want a lot of channels in the cable package.

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]]> By: MobHappy » Blog Archive » Carnival of the Mobilists #107 http://skydeck.com/blog/mobile-market/do-consumers-care-about-open-access/comment-page-1#comment-739 MobHappy » Blog Archive » Carnival of the Mobilists #107 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:13:55 +0000 http://skydeck.com/blog/mobilemarket/do-consumers-care-about-open-access/#comment-739 [...] Over at the Skydeck blog, Jason wonders if American consumers really care about open access. [...] [...] Over at the Skydeck blog, Jason wonders if American consumers really care about open access. [...]

]]> By: Sean http://skydeck.com/blog/mobile-market/do-consumers-care-about-open-access/comment-page-1#comment-738 Sean Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:16:05 +0000 http://skydeck.com/blog/mobilemarket/do-consumers-care-about-open-access/#comment-738 Hey Jason, I agree with your analysis of the article, but your prediction for 2008 is predicated on the fact that consumers understand what "open access" really means. As you point out, they understand some of the benefits but can't really envision an entirely open world due to the indoctrination of the carriers. It will be interesting if the general public realizes that many of the barriers in mobile are artificial constructs of the carriers and not technological limits. Sean Hey Jason,

I agree with your analysis of the article, but your prediction for 2008 is predicated on the fact that consumers understand what “open access” really means. As you point out, they understand some of the benefits but can’t really envision an entirely open world due to the indoctrination of the carriers.

It will be interesting if the general public realizes that many of the barriers in mobile are artificial constructs of the carriers and not technological limits.

Sean

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