Comments on: Rounded Corners – 68

By: Assaf

Assaf — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:46:13 +0000

To answer that question, I don’t hesitate paying when the price is right. That’s determined by the value.

Being trusted to use it on multiple devices is part of that value I’m expecting to have.

When it comes to open source software, I leave my BitTorrent client running to make bandwidth available for other people.

By: Crosbie Fitch

Crosbie Fitch — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 19:34:09 +0000

But how do you make people pay for this? You can't. A better question would be: "What can you provide via BitTorrent that people would queue up to pay for - without legal obligation or penalty for non-payment?" You could distribute art that an audience had already paid for - that they had procured into the public domain out of their own self interest. Hard for many to believe, but such art, artists, and audiences do exist. Just imagine it: art that people actually want to pay for. Art so good, people want to reward the artist.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:27:01 +0000

Once again following in IBM’s footsteps.

By: Assaf

Assaf — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:09:40 +0000

I’m betting it will also be the last of its kind. Microsoft will manage to recoup the investment from obsolesence, but that’s not where the money is. The money is in profit and growth, and if the stock stays flat, employees find the door.

Ballmer will quietly leave and no one will shed a tear. Someone at Microsoft will write an internal memo, for the cover of NYT: “how we lost on all fronts by focusing only on Win/Office”. Microsoft will slim down, do a turn around and come back as a different company.

By: Sterling Camden

Sterling Camden — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:11:32 +0000

Yeah, I can think of a few “biggest launches” that were far from the most profitable. Doing too much at once can be disastrous, but maybe Microsoft is a big enough boat to weather the storm.