Subject: Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers? Date: Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 10:17:40AM -0400 Quoting Jay Ashworth (j...@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 ...
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