- From: SA Alfonso Baqueiro <abaqueiro@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:09:43 -0600
2007/12/12, cramhead <cramhead at gmail.com>: > > They are acting with their shareholders in mind. They have everything to > gain and nothing to loose as they all have their platforms, i.e. Window, > OS X, Itunes, cellular handset, that they control/use their propiety > formats. It costs them to switch and they have the possibility of loosing > their current dominant position. It's not a good business decision for them > to endorse something they have less control over. I am not so sure, because using a common format generates compatibility and interoperability, and this translates in wider technology use because it simplifies everything, and makes the technology easy to use, it is absurd you need a specific software for each product, so you are able to pass your files to your cellphone, also is absurd you need a specific OS (windows) to be able to use the software), that complicates my life, wastes my time, and I, as a intelligent consumer will not buy this kind of products, the bad news is most of the consumers are no so intelligent and fall in the traps the of the hardware vendors, so they use their propietary tech, without thinking about the rights they are loosing, but the counterpoint is that simple technology makes it atractive for consumers that are not geeks, and this increase the demand, and the sales, this is the lack of understanding of the "big companies" they are like dinosaurs, and the continue to survive while there is not a big economic crash, but the physical economy is collapsing, with the food and energy prices rising. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20071213/48e1b705/attachment.htm>
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