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From: steve@mixmin.net
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:06:42 +1300, Your Name wrote in
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> Also few people even know Usenet exists.
Few people even get beyond their browser. If the functionality isn't
in Facebook, they don't use it.
Probably a bit harsh but it sums up the degree that services have to be
simplified in order for people to adopt them. Even email as we know it
is beginning to lose out to Facebook private messaging. Thankfully it's
so completely useless that most people still require a proper email
address. Let us hope they never improve it to the point that that
ceases to be the case.
> ISPs in general are becoming lazier and lazier, offering fewer services.
> They are moving towards simply providing an Internet connnection, with it
> being up to the user to supply their own email, newsgroup, etc. services.
I'm actually in favour of this. I want my ISP to focus on core
services, like my connection itself and a decent DNS (including a
reverse lookup that I can configure). The other services they offer(ed)
were always second-rate in comparison to providers that specialised in
them.
> Meanwhile, prices continue to rise, but we get less actual service (and in
> the case of Vodafone New Zealand, often no service at all!). :-(
I share your pain. Living in a very rural part of the UK, I'm lucky to
see 1Mb/s, despite paying for a business service. Over the next couple
of years I should see FTTH (Fibre To The Home) and speeds up to 50Mb/s.
As this technology rolls out around the world, we'll see yet another
shift to more glitzy, multimedia-centric services. Quality of content
will subsequently take another dive.
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