Comments on: Wal-Mart Cancels Video Download Service; HP Says Wasn't Worth Powering http://paidcontent.org/2007/12/28/419-wal-mart-cancels-video-download-service-hp-says-wasnt-worth-powering/ The economics of digital content Fri, 24 May 2013 23:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shelly http://paidcontent.org/2007/12/28/419-wal-mart-cancels-video-download-service-hp-says-wasnt-worth-powering/#comment-55891 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:14:39 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2007/12/28/419-wal-mart-cancels-video-download-service-hp-says-wasnt-worth-powering/#comment-55891 I've tried services like Vongo, AT&T;broadband, and so forth the big problem was outdated content. Neither Vongo, or at&t;broadband has recent content or would of kept them. Personally even if Walmart came out with a good service I wouldn't spend a dime on it.

]]> By: Kontra http://paidcontent.org/2007/12/28/419-wal-mart-cancels-video-download-service-hp-says-wasnt-worth-powering/#comment-55890 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:07:40 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2007/12/28/419-wal-mart-cancels-video-download-service-hp-says-wasnt-worth-powering/#comment-55890 In a frenzy to catch up with Apple, the industry hasn’t learned much from the PlaysForSure debacle by watching Microsoft abandon its own DRM and introduce Zune with a new and incompatible system to compete directly against its erstwhile digital music “partners.” In another instance of mortgaging success to others’ willingness or ability to innovate, AOL recently moved its struggling video service to Amazon Unbox which in turn is based on Microsoft’s PlaysForSure.

The irony here is that Wal-Mart relied on HP that relied on Microsoft and AOL relies on Amazon that relies on Microsoft which itself no longer relies on its own PlaysForSure. When a core component of a product or service depends on the rate of innovation of another party over which you have no control or influence, it’s time to rethink strategy. It’s also time to ask yourself, twice or thrice removed from core competency, should you really be in such a business?

Strategic design risks (1): Wal-Mart’s foolhardy reliance on “partners”
http://counternotions.com/2007/12/28/walmart-video/

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