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This guy is right. A lot of it has to do with the demise of the PC too. You can't build a Napster on underpowered and severely restrictive phones and tablets,
by return0 14y ago
This guy is right. A lot of it has to do with the demise of the PC too. You can't build a Napster on underpowered and severely restrictive phones and tablets, so the net is increasingly becoming the new cable TV.
However, by design, the internet is not destined to be like that, and it will not be. The past few years may have been an aberration.
- marcosdumay 14y agoWell, the phones and tablets get less underpowered and restrictive each day. Current phones are way more powerfull than PCs were when Napster was launched. They could easily run something like it today. As they are also powerfull enough to decide what to do with meta tags (or the more modern semantic ones) and to keep several dictionaries of data in place. They just don't do that for marketing reasons. I also think that things CAN change, but I doubt that change is that inevitable as you say.
- return0 14y agoHow is it that they get less restrictive each day?