Timo Bauer, GM Americas for NewBay, was so nice to give me a very detailed picture of their product roadmap. Yes, he sneaked into the book in the very last minute, but it’s one of the best telecom-centric interviews I had.
One quote regarding Access:
Today most people think about how to get content onto certain devices. The “Sync” paradigm is all over the place. We think that the “sync” paradigm is actually “anti the cloud”. It is not about “syncing” content rather about enabling easy “Access” to content that sits in the cloud.
and another one regarding Trust:
I think this is a huge opportunity for carriers. I personally am more than happy and even prefer to use a trusted Tier 1 carrier brand to do that for me rather than a Web Service with questionable [terms and conditions]. Who do I trust to manage my personal content for the next 30 years? There are not many companies with the right intentions and capabilities to do that. [...]. The Facebook privacy discussion is just the beginning in this regard. So why not provide a technology platform to carriers that allows them to share all the user generated data with third parties, BUT also allows them technically as well as policy driven to retrieve the data back. The carrier will act as your trusted partner in this case and I believe no one in the value chain is better suited to do this better than the carrier.
Thanks, Timo!
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