It’s always fun to watch mainstream or Old Media thinkers catch up on things the interwebs already have known. Case in point:
by Joel Espelien
As novelist William Gibson once said, the future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed. Consider that in the U.S., revenue from the top 10 video streaming apps more than tripled during the year ending in July, driven by HBO Now, Netflix and Hulu. And in early September, Apple CEOTim Cook made it official, proclaiming in support of the new (more app-friendly) Apple TV device that, “The future of TV is apps.”
If the future of TV is indeed an app, who wins and who loses?