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Amazon's new Kindle and Apple's iPhone seem to essentially draw the line that creates two internet business models (or architectures?):

1.  Connection is free, pay-per-view for content.

2.  Connection for a fee (variable on demand), content is free.

It seems to me that the former has already been tried and, largely anyway, failed.  Ross Perot championed "push" architecture for the internet (in fact, he called it the only possible model), but within two (ok, three) years "push" was dead.  Push does have its place - witness Ajax/Json - but it is a measured dose within the freedom of spontaneous choice.  (Yes, this necessarily sets aside the preponderance of webtracking, cookies, and hidden or disguised serial content - that's because those are all elements that exist whether or not there is push.)

There's always the possibility of a combination of the two, but keep in mind that in both instances, there will be renegades that will spoil or break the model, at least temporarily.

Or, maybe I'm just full of it.  What do you think Kindle, iPhone, and/or internet architecture?