By Chris Ulm on Aug 27, 2010 in Apple, Convergence, Disruptive Tech
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Part 1 – App TV: The Everything Box
The living room right now is a no man’s land of standards and cables, universally poor and inconsistent user interfaces, huge numbers of channels, multiple boxes of hardware, hated cable companies, and multiple video game systems, each with its own proprietary hardware and expensive software. TV needs a revolution, exactly the same way that smartphones did — and it’s going to happen beginning this year. But...
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By Chris Ulm on Aug 27, 2010 in Apple, Convergence, Digital Distribution
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Click Here for Part 1 of How and Why App TV Will Disrupt the Console Game Industry
As an industry, video games are at an inflection point as economic, technological and social trends are coming together to disrupt the way we develop, sell and build games. These trends will remake the console business in ways both expected and unexpected.
Movies vs. TV
The underlying force that is driving all of this change is convenience and low cost.
In fact, the tsunami...
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