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Nokia is on the side of openness in the mobile industry -- in fact, history says it's inevitable, according to, Bob Iannucci, chief technology officer of Nokia Corp. Openness seems paramount, but how to get there? The telecom world isn't the model, Iannucci said. "If we imagine the telecoms' way of doing that, you imagine these smoke-filled rooms where people make a decision, and seven years later, some outdated technology comes out. We can't do that," he said. But neither can mobile vendors realistically replicate what the computer industry keeps doing. The mainframe, minicomputer, and PC worlds each saw the value get sucked out of hardware and shifted first to software, then to services. Computers had dominant players that dictated some hardware standards, though; mobile phone vendors aren't likely to let one player decide everything, no matter how popular the iPhone gets.
[Read between the lines. It's yet another industry who's business model is threatened by openness and who's afraid of actually having to provide services to make money instead of peddling cheap hardware at too high prices. - Sander]


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