tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post5415523341394989517..comments2024-03-20T22:57:03.923+00:00Comments on Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless: Ray Ozzie, the so-called "post PC" era, and the naivete of the software industryDean Bubleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719150957239368264noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-69270196953013182492010-10-28T08:10:08.143+01:002010-10-28T08:10:08.143+01:00Jack - thanks.
Never mind enough fibre to serve ...Jack - thanks. <br /><br />Never mind enough fibre to serve a village, water and electricity would be good....<br /><br />... then there's actually the costs & practicalities of building out decent wireless networks, especially in places with low GDP / capita, low bank account penetration etc.<br /><br />Brian - thank for the comment. I had a look at the site. Interesting, but I disagree with some of it quite strongly. <br /><br />Sure, smartphones have evolved a lot over the last decade & are now strongly useful. For some people in some places.<br /><br />But they still don't have a fraction of the reach in to society & the economy that PCs do. Saying they are "longer central to global computing or communications" - well, I'll agree about communications, but then barring email & IM & a bit of Skype they never have been.<br /><br />But global computing? What do you think runs the Treasury of every government & sits on the civil servants' desks? What is almost all software *written* on? What are the most important end-points for SAP? What lives inside a bank ATM machine or retailer's till?<br /><br />And what do you think every teenager from Hanoi to Tbilisi to La Paz uses to set up their Facebook page?Dean Bubleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719150957239368264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-40791262939597476472010-10-28T05:01:18.437+01:002010-10-28T05:01:18.437+01:00Well written, though I think we're already in ...Well written, though I think we're already in the 'post PC' era. With 5 billion mobile phones in use, a rapidly growing share of those becoming smartphones, the PC may survive within its (ever-smaller) ecosystem, like crocodiles, but it's no longer central to global computing or communications.<br /><br />If interested, this is pretty much all I write about on my site (www.brianshall.com). <br /><br />I do think you are spot on, however, about the importance of software + hardware.Brian S Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13157766736162157457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-49786942431491874532010-10-27T12:38:10.024+01:002010-10-27T12:38:10.024+01:00I don't agree on the "beautifully written...I don't agree on the "beautifully written" part; it read like the overly florid prose people try at graduation speeches or cult initiations. ("YOU are the future! Now give us $500 and we'll show you the way!") However, there were a lot of very good points, particularly in regards to appliances and continuous services. I'll have to check his posts for more on that.<br /><br />Something about these sorts of posts strikes me as condescending. They seem to ignore that for all our high-speed connections and cloud computing, many places in the world are still figuring out how to run enough fiber to serve a village. And when these posts do touch on emerging markets, it's with the same all-knowing tone that announces wireless will be used to completely transform these societies---never mind the very real work required of implmeneting and integrating technology and, oh yeah, infrastructure. Whatever, that'll all catch up, right? He glosses over infrastructure the same way people treat Photoshop in Hollywood. "Why can't you just enhance the image?"<br /><br />People need to stop thinking of wired and wireless as mutually exclusive or somehow representative of two different things. Why not point some of these great visionaries towards real challenges: base stations that can be deployed safely in war zones, fiber optic cables that will withstand flooding, high-capacity and low-cost backhaul for cities...?Jack Nooknoreply@blogger.com