Chirp.io uses sound to transmit & receive links between nearby Android/iOS devices. IMO, interesting tech[1], thats more useful & less secure than bluetooth, for such use cases.
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IF they keep their pace of innovation, music industry in europe is bound for a shakeup.
Quoting verbatim: "The informal repair services that are offered are quite simply driven by necessity - highly price sensitive customers cannot afford to go through more expensive official customer care centers and even if they could their phones are unlikely to be covered by warrantee - having been bought through grey market channels, been sent as gifts from friends and relatives abroad, or were locally bought used, second or third+ ownership. In many cases these users cannot afford to be without their mobile phone, not in the social sense of being out of touch (which is valid enough), but in many instances because their livelihoods depend on it. On the supply side there is a ready pool of sufficiently skilled labour, ready access to tools, comp"
The chance that a small business can take advantage of scale is next to nil, as the supply chain would have peaked before small business can source at the same price levels.
http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/05/12/the-future-of-spotif...
IMO, Spotify's popularity means that they're already a prime acquisition target.
Onlive's offering will be a combination of service and/or device with all the rendering happening on the servers. One key stumbling block for adoption will be ISP's, in an era where they're capping downloads.
1. The car was built from ground up.
2. The supply chain was simplified by making the suppliers partners.
3. Shipping the whole car as kits for the downstream distributors to assemble, thus reducing several costs.
4. The key success factor for Tata Nano project was price. The price was fixed and everything else just worked around it.
Source: https://publish.ovi.com/#FAQ http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/live/