Blackberry’s technical problems highlight the online issue of walled gardens and the need for the internet to be sustained as a broad based framework both for content and its delivery.
Blackberry have been joined in the doghouse today by NetFlix, who seem to have misjudged the needs of the customers and lost a lot of them.
Overdependence on a limited number of suppliers, whether content brokers like Netflix, those tending walled gardens like Facebook, creating ‘eco-systems’ like Apple, or most of the mobile based environments doesn’t work for long. ‘Remember AOL’ should be plastered on the wall of every online manager’s office – as a warning.