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And???And???Posted Jul 21, 2005 7:05 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)In reply to: And??? by dkite Parent article: Intel to cut Linux out of the content market (Inquirer)
Insightful. Either it's a computer, and it acts like a computer, in which case it'll be harder to use than a set-top box, thence smaller novice user population, or it's Yet Another Set-Top Box (YASTB) that nay idiot can plug in. One is innovative. Two is competition. Five is annoying. If it's a valuable service, it will get commoditized, and Intel and Microsoft will lose their investment to cheaper and more integrated competitors who reimplement the concept without the constraints. See TiVo and digital cable. You can't patent an idea. (So far.) The more specific the component specifications, the more prone to abstraction away from a specific implementation. The cheaper parts aren't DRM enabled, but can perform the same end-user function, and DRM isn't an end-user function for playing media. So who needs it?
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