Technology
Micro-Billing, Byte by Byte, Suits the World of Cellphones
By MATT RICHTEL and BOB TEDESCHI
Published: April 6, 2009
The digital marketplace has strained many in the media realm, but one industry has thrived: the phone companies, which make sure not to give away entertainment.
It is a curious equation: pay for stuff on a tiny, low-resolution screen while getting some of the very same games and video free on a fancy widescreen monitor.
...the designers of the Internet envisioned it as utopian and open — two words rarely used to describe the phone experience
One example of the stark difference between the phone and the computer is the concept of micropayments. Newspapers and other content producers have examined the method — getting people to pay for content with a nickel here and a dime there — as a possible answer to their revenue problems on the Web.
“It’s like a slot machine.”Phone is main business tool. And interconected with computers using securized communications tools is keyboard for that computer two distinct way. Recording vocal messages is same as fingerprints, message have signature.
Slot machine was in great depresion era main tool for "gocery boys pockets"
What should we do?
How about nothing? Capitalism is a "perennial gale of creative destruction" (Joseph Schumpeter)। Industries come and go.
If General Motors goes under, there will still be cars. And if the New York Times disappears, there will still be news.
And Pavlov's
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While executives ponder the possibly strange future of news delivery, the more immediate challenge is how to keep institutions in place and profitable so that the news can be covered.
Whatever business models emerge, Jones says newspapers have to focus on their traditional core of fact-based, serious reporting. We might add to that formula the need for a serious populace informed about the fragile thread that connects a free press to a free future.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031302273_2.html
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