If you take a look at this sample Internet TV interface, you will almost immediately sense something important: entertainment video, with some important advances in content availability, could someday become an "application" accessed from an icon on a mobile or fixed device.
That doesn't mean "application" in the sense of a program, but as a gateway or portal to an entire menu of streaming services.
You can figure out why a cable operator wouldn't like that.
Monday, January 10, 2011
TV as "an App"
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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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