Comments on: CNN Offers One Definition For ‘What Is Mobile?’

By: David Berkowitz

David Berkowitz — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:32:47 +0000

I always enjoy Louis’s take on the industry. I still think there’s a key difference: an iPad is a stationary device, not a mobile one. There’s something fundamentally different about it given how you may be in transit while using it, but you’re always sitting still.

By: Rocker

Rocker — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:58:20 +0000

Kevin, it may have been all the time, but you didn’t have it with you all the time, Or if you did, that’s pretty unusual.

By: Kevin Bomberry

Kevin Bomberry — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:26:21 +0000

That’s a good comment Jeremy. I’d just like to add that I’ve not “turned off” my laptop/notebook (MacBook Pro) since I purchased it. And the previous model I had for five years rarely was powered down—it just stayed on albeit in Sleep mode. How soon until standard OS “sleep” mode gets background notifications? Already they can be awoke from LAN and network connections/pings.

By: Jeremy Laws

Jeremy Laws — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:37:40 +0000

After another year or so of this sort of parsing nonsense, an enlightened rogue media company will break rank and do a deal that’ll incorporate all these connected devices into one release window/license and concede that it doesn’t matter whether the content is accessed over the mobile network or wifi, or through the browser or an application. Then the precedent will be set and others will follow, many begrudgingly (while cursing the rogue company) and that will be the end of it. This will be one component of a broader trend that will eventually see a media landscape with just 2 release windows, public & personal.