Media: A-Clue continues to talk Always-On, with Business Models

Dana Blankenhorn's column A-Clue has run some thought-provoking stuff the last few weeks on the impact of always-on connectivity. Here's more...

'To work, a business model must bring a profit to the vendor and ample value to the consumer,' he starts, and he points out that 'a good business model can be worse for vendors than what came before. What matters is that the consumer gets awesome value while a vendor still finds a route to profit.'

He argues that Always-On applications require a lot of software which must work seamlessly on a network in order for the application to be bullet-proof. And he sees present business models leading away from this vision: 'Not only are software prices going up, not down, but you can't even "buy" it. You can only "license" it, for a fixed term, and thus no matter how old your machine you have to "buy" it and "buy" it again. Worse, the software maker isn't even promising to make sure it works for you -- software license agreements specifically indemnify the makers from crappy products.

Then he offers other models...

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