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May 19, 2011 01:34 am GMT

Carrier: Legacy ""  Can Apple, Google, Or Microsoft Really Change Anything?

The backstory of last year's film Tron: Legacy picks up where the first film left off. Kevin Flynn teams up with Tron to create a new Grid, one meant for programs and users. But Flynn realizes that he can't be in the system working on this constructed world all the time, so he creates another program, CLU, to help with the effort. Together, the three of them work on creating this newperfectsystem.Then something happens.I'm reminded of this story when reading Kevin Fox's post last night entitled:Is Microsoft trying to end the reign of mobile carriers? (MSFT+Skype+Nokia). In it, he lays out a scenario in which Microsoft uses theiracquisitionof Skype alongside Windows Phone 7 and their new deep partnership with Nokia to disrupt the system that we've all been familiar with for far too long: carrier dominance. Their aim is to create a new Grid, if you will. And they're not alone. Google and Apple are also working on this goal. Flynn. Tron. CLU.

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