Thursday, July 17, 2008
What the digerati don't know
Don't believe everything you read on blogs - other than this one, of course.The iPhone sold out in many Rogers stores this past weekend, delivering the best sales weekend in the company's history, despite the hostility expressed towards Rogers on so many blogs and websites.
I have to wonder if this is a case of digerati being too inwardly focussed to have properly measured the pulse of the average person on the street.
Is this a reason that traffic shaping hasn't attracted more public attention?
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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 7/17/2008 07:07:00 AM 
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Good point. Of course it is fashionable to talk of Rogers' greed, but after all it is a business with the goal of earning a profit for their shareholders.
The flip side is the greed of a small segment of the user community, many in the digerati class. Not surprisingly, some of them gorge themselves at the all-you-can eat bandwidth buffet. They resist the idea of having to pay more because of their appetites.
Although I signed the iPhone petition (I personally eat a lot of bandwidth) I think the complaints about Rogers' iPhone launch were overplayed.
Essentially, the digerati are talking among themselves. While Michael Geist and others might get them all worked up, these issues do not resonate beyond a select group.
Data rates will come down eventually. In the meantime, Rogers and other telcos will milk the early adopters for as long as they can. Technology has always been like that. Does anyone really find this behaviour surprising?
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The flip side is the greed of a small segment of the user community, many in the digerati class. Not surprisingly, some of them gorge themselves at the all-you-can eat bandwidth buffet. They resist the idea of having to pay more because of their appetites.
Although I signed the iPhone petition (I personally eat a lot of bandwidth) I think the complaints about Rogers' iPhone launch were overplayed.
Essentially, the digerati are talking among themselves. While Michael Geist and others might get them all worked up, these issues do not resonate beyond a select group.
Data rates will come down eventually. In the meantime, Rogers and other telcos will milk the early adopters for as long as they can. Technology has always been like that. Does anyone really find this behaviour surprising?
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