Then, while at BellSouth, it dawned on me that buying wireless wasn't really fundamentally different from buying an airfare, because it would eventually become a commodity mostly shopped on price, and therefore the industry would follow the same general distribution path.

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Xiaomi Technology may be taking its own path with regard to distribution, but its products look very familiar.

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Since Microsoft is following the same path with Windows 8, we are witnessing quite literally the end of software distribution freedom.

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So I do no believe we can politically sustain the path we have been on, watching as market outcomes, what folks in this room call primary distribution income, grow increasingly unequal and hope to address these vast inequities through tax policies and transfer that politically cannot be sustained, in my view.

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