Wireless Professionals
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Question posted: 06 03 2008 22:21:31 +0000,
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07 06 2010 20:18:08 +0000
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I missed the announcement on Feb 9 about Damaka. Damaka is ostensible another SkypeKiller, (the last one I checked out was Teleo) according to the Press. Like Teleo it is using the GIPS Voice engine and it claims it is SIP. After installing it, having a "crash" and my testing buddy two reboots we finally both managed to add each other as a buddy. It probably a bug but until we both rebooted we couldn't even connect. Then we had an uneventful and clear call.
What did I learn?
Currently Damaka doesn't offer any inbound or outbound number options, in fact it is very much a walled garden. Unlike Teleo it does require authorization to add a buddy. It failed to offer more than a two line option, the interface is clumsy (compared to Skype) and it just looks like a development that is at least a year behind Skype. I understand from reputable sources that it may not be a SIP client at all.
There are other walled / controlled options that are already more interesting for companies. For example Pangean Tech. has been developing an interesting platform. I'd like to see the bar raised. Anyone not designing for best in class is simply kidding themselves today. Skype is gaining 150K downloads per day. You have to have something real.
identity. That's simply not the case. Corporations are lead by
directors and run by managers, all of whom are independent agents who
don't necessarily have the best interests of the corporatation at heart
- whatever that means.
It's just typical for fiscal conservatives to assume that
individuals lose self-interest when they join the
socialist-bureaucratic entities called corporations, just as it's
typical for fiscal liberals to assume that individuals lose
self-interest when they join the socialist-bureaucratic entities called
governments.
Even if the wireless network operators of today could change, why would they?
1. No one wants to sell commodities - there's no glamour. It's far
more glamourous to try to pitch premium services and content. You get
better margins and a higher PE multiple, not to mention the ego boost
from rubbing shoulders with Hollywood types.
2. It is debatable that stochastic, packet-switched technologies
are superior to circuit-switched. (Bittorrent and Skype will kill the
Internet - packet switched isn't meant for streaming with any QoS.)
Even if it were true, what will happen to the engineers who have spent
their careers on circuit-switched technologies? What incentive do the
R&D and engineering organizations of these companies to switch?
3. A corporation that attempts to compete on product packages and
pricing deals is a sales and marketing driven organization. That means
that sales and marketing dominate the culture, and the CEO probably
came up from the sales or marketing organizations. What would happen to
the sales directors waiting in the wings if the corporation were to
become an engineering organization?
This is not a conspiracy of dunces; it is a conspiracy of
cannibals. It is in the best interest of senior managers to maintain
their power by keeping the business model focused on their realms of
expertise, and milk the company for as long as possible before it
fails. They land with golden parachutes, and the ones who lose are the
shareholders unwise enough to be holding shares when the crash comes
and the employees who wouldn't or couldn't jump.
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