On 16 May 2013, at 05:55, Richard G Elen <re...@brideswell.com> wrote:
> On 16/05/2013 10:36, Ronald C.F. Antony wrote: >>> This is another version of the "lobby the record companies to adopt xxx >>> technology" argument, which never worked in the past. >> Nope. Screw the record industry. This is "lobby the distributors". >> Google, Apple, Amazon, these are the driving forces, they call the shots, >> not the record industry. > > I think I wasn't clear on this. I regard "lobby the [anyone]" as a lost cause > unless you're, say, Dolby. I mean that "lobby the distribs" is the same > tactic as "lobby the record companies" was in the old days, and it's doomed > to fail. We don't have the muscle. I said "lobby" not "bully" ;) Of course we don't have the muscle. But that's not what it's about. The question if one can convince one of the players if the small investment is worth it to be able to differentiate themselves against their competition in a market that's otherwise dominated by me-too products. Look at how that dumb Samsung feature of waving in front of the phone is hyped up: "Oh, but when I'm eating ribs, I don't want to touch the phone with the greasy fingers, but now I can just wave my hands, and it will pick up on speaker phone without me touching the phone." Plays really well in commercials, but in reality, you'll likely have the phone in the pockets of your pants, and you'll have to touch the phone and the pants before you could even wave your hands in front of the phone. Comparatively speaking, surround sound for music is a much bigger deal than waving your greasy hands in front of a phone to make it answer. So if that silly feature is worth that much advertising time, how much is it worth to have better functionality in an entire music infrastructure vs. just in a particular model phone? Ronald -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4853 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130516/fd66b2e9/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
