…
… Is it possible that the Cisco UC “solution” in the enterprise space enters into an age of death by attrition as MSFT creeps in from the desktop and edges out the King of digital plumbing? Or will their SOHO play and behemoth (though dwindling) marketing budget bring them closer to the hearts and minds (read wallets) of the consumer … Will the proliferation of intuitive and user friendly open source in the enterprise coupled with a markedly savvy consumer dilute the market? Tune in next episode for battle of the quantization. Ker-Pow! BLAM! Zoinks!
And by the way … who cares about the consumer anyway, and what effect does it have on the employment of technology in the enterprise? In the age of BYOD, where open source and standards based architectures reign supreme, truly unified communications can be measured in an ability to provide a seamless delivery of presence across hardware (device), geographical, organizational and demographic boundaries. Oh yeah, and lest we forget, secure, access across those pesky network boundaries … ubiquitous … I had to use that word in here somewhere. IP is the protocol, now what is the platform?
Why does Apple stand at risk of taking such a hard hit from the Google / Android crowd? (As an owner of two iPhone 4s, I neither own a Droid, nor do I use Chrome … my observation is purely hypothetical and based on limited field testing …)
Why am I scared of the impact of Moore’s law compounded en masse by an uneven tipping of the scales in China, and what it means to American innovation and the protection and prospective (de)valuation of US Intellectual Property? … manufacturing of high tech at criminally low cost driven by a feeding frenzy to the soon to boom Chinese middle class … in a country with a culture which places personal fortune and social stature over moral values and ethics … and a state which has no interest in enforcement of policy which may stand in the way of corporate, thus national, thus global, economic ascension. Import the intellectual capital, copy the technology … assimilate, rebrand, mass produce, export … slay the American dragon. Innovation will creep in there at some point, at which time will the tech hungry American consumer, pocket book tight with the devaluation of the dollar opt for the less expensive, more capable import over the proud American stalwart? Well … at least the American Dragon needs to bite …
HTC vs Apple anyone?
It could be because I am an uninformed lemming … Or not.
Oh yes … I have to give credit to Mr. Garcia for prompting this train of thought with the Garner group “Magic Quadrant” for UC …
http://msunified.net/2010/08/09/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-unified-communications-2010/
