DMR: And that’s where, actually, I think Cloud is very interesting. Because it’s not just about my thread or my data – you can anonymize all data and leverage all location.
Jamie Allen: That’s right. There is amazing intelligence that can be captured from all this noise if you could just get all the noise in one place so you can analyze it. I think that’s a huge opportunity. But there are privacy issues that need to be taken into consideration.
DMR: So all this kind of intelligence about what do I like, what do I not like, when do I look at what stuff – it should not be a manual process.
Jamie Allen: Oh, no. 90 percent of it should be automatic. However, I should be able to explicitly configure it to never remove the picture of my grandson from my phone. But generally speaking it should be automatic. For example, if it’s a picture I recently took it should probably stay on the phone for awhile because there’s a probability I want to show it to people. If it’s a picture that I have looked at recently it should stay on the phone, there’s a probability that I’m probably going to want to show it to somebody else or look at it again. But if it’s a picture that is three months old and I haven’t looked at it, and it’s already been uploaded to the Cloud – get rid of it. And then, if I do download it from the cloud again, don’t send the four megabyte file down to my phone, I only have a little teeny screen. Transcode it and send a little teeny picture down.
I think this problem of managing peoples’ data distributed amongst many devices is a huge problem and, therefore, is a huge opportunity. The problem is how to make money out of it.
DMR: The underlying problem is also finding a commercial model where Cloud providers or software providers or telecom providers are actually able to pay the amount a carrier needs to create the network they need.
Jamie Allen: That’s true. That’s absolutely correct.
DMR: Well, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and insights, great talking to you, as always!
Jamie Allen: My pleasure.
