http://www.tommerritt.com/2010/12/08/tech-news-today-133-roast-the-android-pigs/ Curious about what Tom Merritt's up to? Well here ya go. Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:46:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.tommerritt.com/2010/12/08/tech-news-today-133-roast-the-android-pigs/comment-page-1/#comment-5934 Dave McLain Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:28:36 +0000 http://www.tommerritt.com/?p=2017#comment-5934 This morning I was listening/watching TNT where you were talking about the telecoms and there ideas about charging for data usage etc. Very complicated stuff but one aspect that I didn't hear mentioned is one that I don't think is being considered. What if there wasn't any cool new content available. No content that was particularly compelling or high quality for the user wouldn't that hurt the telecoms because people wouldn't have any reason to even get a data plan. They would not have any reason to buy smart phones either why would they? This morning I was listening/watching TNT where you were talking about the telecoms and there ideas about charging for data usage etc. Very complicated stuff but one aspect that I didn’t hear mentioned is one that I don’t think is being considered. What if there wasn’t any cool new content available. No content that was particularly compelling or high quality for the user wouldn’t that hurt the telecoms because people wouldn’t have any reason to even get a data plan. They would not have any reason to buy smart phones either why would they?

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