Tag: Market

Video isn't interesting ... enough

>The way I see it, Video apps were created only to claim victory over a market that doesn’t really fix any problems or have a willing audience to begin with. It’s like trying to bring back the Twinkie, snack cake bakeries thought that the public wanted it because there was so much talk about how much people would miss them but when they start to come back onto he market, no one really cares.[fiftyfootshadows](http://fiftyfootshadows.net/2013/06/20/instavidigramification/)

I didn't care for it when Flickr added it way back when. I don't get Vine. I don't want video in my Instagram stream. Don't get me wrong. I love video. I'm a big movie watcher. I have a Netflix streaming account and an Apple TV. I even love well produced commercials.

But ... I just can't understand why anyone would want to share a few seconds of meaningless crap.

iBGStar

What Sanofi has done today is bigger then a meter, what they’ve done is throw down the gauntlet. Much like when Apple first introduced the iPhone, the release of this product says, “no more clunky technology that looks like it’s from a 1976 sci-fi movie”.I think Scott nails it. The iBGStar could be the fire under the feet of the market players to give us more than the same warmed over crap every year. The last “innovation” in glucometer tech was when OneTouch started offering the Ultra mini in multiple colors.The iBGStar raises the bar

Chris Moseley on Apple TV

TVs are ultimately about picture quality. Ultimately. How smart they are…great, but let’s face it that’s a secondary consideration. The ultimate is about picture quality and there is no way that anyone, new or old, can come along this year or next year and beat us on picture quality.Chris Moseley
Right, that’s what televisions are ultimately about today. But that’s like how cellphones were all about being as small as possible five years ago. And voice quality.Then Apple came along and changed the game. The iPhone was bigger than a RAZR. And it had worse voice quality (thanks AT&T). But it had apps. And Visual Voicemail. And multi-touch. And a dozen other things that made the phones of the day seem like stodgy turds in comparison.Picture quality will always be important on televisions, obviously. But we hit that “good enough” wall years ago. The next evolution will not be about picture quality. And that’s why it sure sounds as if Samsung is fucked 5 years from now in the market.Paris | The Titanic is Unsinkable