Wal-Mart is offering Skype certified hardware in 1,800 of its stores throughout the United States, including headsets, webcams and handsets, as well as the first prepaid cards for Skype available in the U.S. Either Skype and Wal-Mart think Skype is way past the early adopter phase, or else both believe early adopters shop at Wal-Mart. We think the latter might be closer to the truth.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Past Early Adopters?
Wal-Mart is offering Skype certified hardware in 1,800 of its stores throughout the United States, including headsets, webcams and handsets, as well as the first prepaid cards for Skype available in the U.S. Either Skype and Wal-Mart think Skype is way past the early adopter phase, or else both believe early adopters shop at Wal-Mart. We think the latter might be closer to the truth.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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