The popularity of video game broadcasting
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 5:13 am
YouTube still daunts many in the media industry, as the best way to monetize content may be to give it away for free and charge $0.99 for optional content. Internet giant AOL’s acquisition of media conglomerate Time Warner in 2000 was based on the idea that media and technologydistribution needed to converge, but failed to generate revenue beyond expectations and was dissolved in 2009. Nine years later, it was acquired by mobile internet giant AT&T on the same premise.
While many technologists imagined some kind of “personal poland mobile database computer,” its attributes and timing were unpredictable, so Microsoft dominated the PC era from the 1990s onward, rather than mainframe hegemon IBM. While Microsoft clearly foresaw mobile , it misread the role of the OS and hardware, so Android and iOS rose to prominence worldwide Microsoft moved from the OS layer to the applicationservice layer. In a similar sense, Steve Jobs’ predictions about computers were “correct,” they were just too far ahead of their time. The two most prominent examples of the early Internet were instant messaging and email, but the importance of social appsnetworks was unexpected until the late 2000s. For that matter, all the prerequisites for building Facebook existed long before Facebook came along, but it didn’t appear until 2005—and even then, it was an unexpected surprise.
While many technologists imagined some kind of “personal poland mobile database computer,” its attributes and timing were unpredictable, so Microsoft dominated the PC era from the 1990s onward, rather than mainframe hegemon IBM. While Microsoft clearly foresaw mobile , it misread the role of the OS and hardware, so Android and iOS rose to prominence worldwide Microsoft moved from the OS layer to the applicationservice layer. In a similar sense, Steve Jobs’ predictions about computers were “correct,” they were just too far ahead of their time. The two most prominent examples of the early Internet were instant messaging and email, but the importance of social appsnetworks was unexpected until the late 2000s. For that matter, all the prerequisites for building Facebook existed long before Facebook came along, but it didn’t appear until 2005—and even then, it was an unexpected surprise.