bring the discussion on, throw out some brave predictions
gonna try and start off with some
1) staturation of stores: at this point of time, most people are talking about saturation of content in some media. Radio stations, tv channels, and games in android or ios. This is going to happen with the online store options. Competition is going to be intense, and very likely the store cut for steam, iOS, Play, and all the other ones (Alien Arena?) all are going to offer unique incentives - in app incentives depending on which store you buy the prodct from. Maybe OnLive will get kicking by then. the good news is you can order your groceries during the transit home from work. the bad news is the network may get jammed just when all the stores decide to discount stuff.
2) Cloud will be the core of the experience : whatever your offering, it is gonna be on the cloud. Consumers are gonna get mad if their progress on a particular game, or the amount of ebook they have read on one platform is not available on another. Cloud will invade all platforms, media and channels. Cloud will convert mobiles to consoles. You can expect your phones to magically send content to your tv/comp and control it, regularly in the near future.
if you think iOS is truly walled, think again, amazon extends its content to other devices, so does certain kind of IAP in some cross platform games... this is going to get increasingly common. the good news is gaming parties require just your phones as against laptops. the bad news is everyone will have to patiently wait while the guy who was streaming the movie has that irritating phone call with his long lost relative.
3) mobiles will replace all other screens : srsly, we dont need computers and tv and consoles anymore, mobiles can provide all these functions and at locations tv and comps cant reach. one problem is, tvs are becoming computers (social networking, apps, email etc), consoles are becoming entertainment hubs (blu-ray functionality for 2 GB games? really? LOL!) and computers are becoming theatres (that's where most movies are screened.) All of this is possible on a mobile, the latest few generations of mobile phones can support HD streaming on screens... and soon you can just bump it into any available screen whenever you wanna. good news: no need to worry about upgrades or updates or that strange thing... yeah dependency resolution... only pains an elite few, but even that's not gonna happen anymore. bad news: more pedestrians on the roads looking at their screens instead of traffic.
4) It's going to be ad supported : this is going to be the problem, the way things are going, it just about makes sense to push referalls and give incentives, than ask for real purchases outright. the premium content wont come at a cost, it will be packaged as an opt in in a free title - aka a freemium. discounts and coupons will be a part and parcel of online purchases. theres gonna be some nasty spam ads on in game currency for that freemium title. that's how most content will be, ebooks, videos, comics, games. supported by ads that let you go deeper and derper into the titles. good news: the world will be urs for free. bad news: you will have to download/ watch/ read a lot of carp to get the world for free.
gonna try and start off with some
1) staturation of stores: at this point of time, most people are talking about saturation of content in some media. Radio stations, tv channels, and games in android or ios. This is going to happen with the online store options. Competition is going to be intense, and very likely the store cut for steam, iOS, Play, and all the other ones (Alien Arena?) all are going to offer unique incentives - in app incentives depending on which store you buy the prodct from. Maybe OnLive will get kicking by then. the good news is you can order your groceries during the transit home from work. the bad news is the network may get jammed just when all the stores decide to discount stuff.
2) Cloud will be the core of the experience : whatever your offering, it is gonna be on the cloud. Consumers are gonna get mad if their progress on a particular game, or the amount of ebook they have read on one platform is not available on another. Cloud will invade all platforms, media and channels. Cloud will convert mobiles to consoles. You can expect your phones to magically send content to your tv/comp and control it, regularly in the near future.
if you think iOS is truly walled, think again, amazon extends its content to other devices, so does certain kind of IAP in some cross platform games... this is going to get increasingly common. the good news is gaming parties require just your phones as against laptops. the bad news is everyone will have to patiently wait while the guy who was streaming the movie has that irritating phone call with his long lost relative.
3) mobiles will replace all other screens : srsly, we dont need computers and tv and consoles anymore, mobiles can provide all these functions and at locations tv and comps cant reach. one problem is, tvs are becoming computers (social networking, apps, email etc), consoles are becoming entertainment hubs (blu-ray functionality for 2 GB games? really? LOL!) and computers are becoming theatres (that's where most movies are screened.) All of this is possible on a mobile, the latest few generations of mobile phones can support HD streaming on screens... and soon you can just bump it into any available screen whenever you wanna. good news: no need to worry about upgrades or updates or that strange thing... yeah dependency resolution... only pains an elite few, but even that's not gonna happen anymore. bad news: more pedestrians on the roads looking at their screens instead of traffic.
4) It's going to be ad supported : this is going to be the problem, the way things are going, it just about makes sense to push referalls and give incentives, than ask for real purchases outright. the premium content wont come at a cost, it will be packaged as an opt in in a free title - aka a freemium. discounts and coupons will be a part and parcel of online purchases. theres gonna be some nasty spam ads on in game currency for that freemium title. that's how most content will be, ebooks, videos, comics, games. supported by ads that let you go deeper and derper into the titles. good news: the world will be urs for free. bad news: you will have to download/ watch/ read a lot of carp to get the world for free.
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and just elsewhere I have to Block You again here too