2012 CES.
An appropriate time to start a blog about telecoms, media and technology.
Microsoft says they will not return next year and my opinion is not that they have outgrown the show but that the show has outgrown Microsoft.
This year what I am seeing is that the projected takeover of the media business by Microsoft, Apple, etc. is highly overrated. Sure, MS has million Xbox’s worldwide as a distribution network for it’s content but those numbers pale beside the amount of connected TV’s, and other devices with browsers.
Many other activities that used to be associated with computers such as health monitoring, music, art, games, web browsing, etc are moving to tablets and smart phones leaving the computer as more and more of a business tool.
The emasculation of the computer’s (i.e. Microsoft’s) sphere of influence was quite striking and will probably continue.
The computer as the center of the universe is dying but who will be the successor?
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