dsk2012
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13 years ago
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on: The Ten Year Decline of Sony
I agree. It's hard for me to believe that certain directions that Sony took were engineer driven, as opposed to mandated by, say, the entertainment division. Early to mid 2000s was essentially one boneheaded move after another, from music players that didn't play mp3s, to cd rootkits, to UMD movies priced higher than DVDs. I wish I could say hindsight is 20/20 but you could literally see the train wreck happening in realtime, no hindsight needed.
dsk2012
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13 years ago
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on: The Tesla Approach to Distributing and Servicing Cars
Car manufacturers can certainly setup mall stores to advertise their cars, but the customer will still need to buy through a dealer.
dsk2012
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13 years ago
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on: Hulu Struggles To Survive The Influence Of Its Parent Companies
Looks like 70*0.125
dsk2012
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13 years ago
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on: Spotify loses $59.1 million on $244.5 million in revenue
Paying more isn't going to do much. It looks like they're losing because of insane licensing costs. Paying more means more goes to the music companies.
dsk2012
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13 years ago
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on: The CD is 30 years old today
Never. First, CD audio quality is good enough. Second, the market is in transition (already transitioned?) to a pure digital format, distributed either via flat files (e.g. mp3s), or via SaaS streaming services.
Similarly, Blu-ray is probably the last physical format for movies.
dsk2012
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13 years ago
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on: Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking Farsi
I'm so happy that between us and them, stands a low-wage retail Apple employee.
dsk2012
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14 years ago
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on: DotCloud.js - Access Cloud Services from the Browser
What's the security model?
dsk2012
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14 years ago
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on: Socialcam adds millions of users, scales, and pushes new version all in one week
So ... How many billions is it worth?
