Re: [kFW] RE: [kNews] Convergence: supply (no) and demand (yes) +meeting up date...

[Daniel Harris <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rupert and All,

Thanks for your email. I learnt a lot. But tell me why most of the large 
content owners and associated industries are not rushing to convergence 
like there was no tomorrow? Tell me why they are resisting, at all cost, 
efforts of open standardisation within their industries? And tell me why we 
don't yet have convergence here and now?

> Whether that leads to lots of entrants, and how it affects prices &
> profits gets more complicated...
>	+  You might get a nice open free-for-all with plummetting prices

Well, that is *exactly* the point! Surely, if this *is* an option of the 
future why would any business, in their right mind, want to risk getting there?

> But convergence, interoperability, standardisation are good ;)

Good for the consumer, yes! Good for business?

Cheers Daniel