Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Browne Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Carriers are only slowly adapting to iOS 18 beta RCS integration Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:32:59 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 19:32:59 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cc5dab326a7b506e2ba726b4b8fe7072"; logging-data="3622730"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+nVLSw0dYhFyM8LarmuTOkam1GAtCKG1I=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:o6AbkIYkLyrZ8cBwD79oPIhw3/U= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2152 On 2024-06-28 01:53, Abandoned Trolley wrote: > >> My old boss still has a huge Betamax library.  Quality is still very >> good (for videotape). >> >> I have some VHS cassettes left - can't seem to sell or give them >> away... all personal stuff has been moved to digital. >> > > > The point I was making was that VHS became the dominant force in the > marketplace despite being (by some distance) the worst performing > technology at the time - a bit like audio cassettes. Sony's terms and conditions for some forms of entertainment begat VHS' success. > Also, in a "normal" marketplace, new entrants can disrupt by competing > on price - I can't see that happening here Not really relevant to the RCS thing at all. -- "It would be a measureless disaster if Russian barbarism overlaid the culture and independence of the ancient States of Europe." Winston Churchill