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Squilliam on 10 June 2010
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WereKitten said:
Squilliam said:

Google will control the internet on Sony products. They will be the ones who will profit in the long term, not Sony. Look at the situation with OEM PC manufacturers and compare them to Microsoft.

Can't understand you here. Both Sony and Google will make their money differently from MS, because neither will make it from the proprietary platform itself.

At Google they don't sell licenses and they don't benefit from lock-in. Whatever your means to use the web you're bringing them more money. Thus, their business proposal gives the hardware providers absolute liberty as long as that brings more web traffic.

Sony on the other hand can use Android and standard web as the packaging for its offer of services and multimedia content. Boosting Android means boosting the number of devices that can consume your content, but the money is in the content, not in the package format lock-in.

What about the app revenue and content downloaded? Firstly if they truly opened up content delivery then Sony consumers would have no lock in towards any device and secondly they would be the ones delivering the content to the consumer eventually if they aren't already.



Tease.