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Monday, May 15, 2006
Anals of marketing, cont'd 
| | "Message discipline = message bonding bondage." That's up on the backchannel (not IRC, which is a mistake) here at the Personal Democracy Forum. |
| | [Later...] Dean Landsman, sitting next to me, asks, "Anals of marketing.. Is that bottom up?" |
All for Al
Ruminations
| | Last night at dinner we were talking about how important it is to get past the belief that a free market is "your choice of silo". This is when Britt dropped the expression "free entry", which Adam Fields talks about (along with much more) in his report on the same dinner. A sample: |
| | In a certain sense, this concept defines the growth of disruptive web services - if the current provider isn¹t doing a good enough job, they should be replaced by someone who¹s selling what people want to buy. This goes right to the heart of why lock-in legislation to protect antiquated business models is a bad bad bad idea. It doesn¹t protect competition, it¹s not an incentive to develop, it¹s simply ³protection² for companies to foist bad products on consumers who want something better. Disruptive business models work, because they¹re good for the consumer. |
| | It was great meeting Adam for the first time, and getting to hang out a bit. His is a rare combination of geek and gourmand, not to mention his smarts about business and much more. |
| | I also covet the Canon 5D camera he used to take the pictures on that last link, under remarkably low light. |
Better garden, same walls
| | Among the 2000+ spams drowning my inbox this morning is one from palm_product_newsletter promoting the new Treo 700p Smartphone. I've been a Palm customer a number of times in the past (going back to the first Palm Pilot), and have been thinking about getting a Treo 650 to replace my failing Sony Ericsson T637 cell phone. It's on sale at the local Cingular store for around $300 or something. I've been leaning against it, however, because a) it's too big and complicated, and b) the guy at the store says it won't work as a bridge to the Net for Linux or Mac laptops. Only Windows. |
| | Anyway, the list of features looked interesting enough to visit the URL. |
| | Until I got to the bottom line: |
| | The new Treo 700p smartphone -- coming soon on the Sprint and Verizon Wireless networks. |
| | Excuse me, but fuck that. |
| | Not because I'm a Cingular customer (actually a former and perhaps future AT&T Wireless customer), but because being a cell phone customer in the U.S. means living inside some carrier's walled garden. And, in the vernacular of my home state, that fucking sucks. |
| | As long as the Net remains a premium feature of cell phones (or cable or telco service), rather than the natural habitat for every form of electronic communication, we'll remain stuck in a world of walled medieval city-states. |
| | Which, by the way, is what the carriers have always wanted, and will continue to want (bullshit to the contrary notwithstanding), until The Market (that's the rest of us, including clueful employees inside the carriers) decide otherwise. |
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