2 Let’s give credit where credit is due: At last count Apple had sold nearly 70 million tablets around the world. By comparison, the iPad is exactly 70 times more successful than the iPod, one of the most important pivot devices in electronics and computing history. So I come today not to bury tablets, but to praise them, and add a fair warning to those who think we — after years of technological struggle — have finally arrived at the resting point known as tablet nirvana.
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2 Responses to “Why today’s tablets don’t really matter | Lean Back 2.0”
hattery
Netflix isn’t a “platform company” they were a dvd rental business who adapted to digital and now they have app platforms.
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en1gma
Tablets are just the delivery device.
Devices are nothing without content.
Content is nothing without the ability to find what’s relevant to *you*.
And that’s why no one company will own this space. Well, except for the one that is already organizing the world’s data and providing instant search across all known human knowledge. GOOG.
NFLX and AAPL can fight over rights to the latest DIS flick, but GOOG is the only company in position to find what people want and deliver it to any device.
The Internet is too big for a single platform. GOOG gets this and they approach the Internet, libraries, pictures, videos as their platform.