And Hulu Plus was a huge disappointment. For those that don't know, ONLY 'plus' content can be streamed to a device directly. You can't watch the vast majority of Hulu's catalog directly on your TV/PS3/whatever. It cost me $10 to learn that.
(This is why I don't read magazines.)
The Hulu Plus content was also disappointing (compared to what's offered on the free Hulu site).
It doesn't work like that and you certainly won't be making consumber friendly products only with developers.
What he should have said was developers, designers, vision. It's the symbiosis of developers and designers that makes a platform interesting.
Look around you, Facebook, iPad, iPhone, Twitter, Google Maps, etc. etc. all these are platforms, and they're successful because people found use cases that the original designers haven't thought of. The ecosystem surrounding these platforms is built by developers, developers, developers.
And it's not what Balmer meant when he said the 3D's.
That it takes developers to build these things is obvious, just as obvious as it takes engineers to build cars. But it's not engineers engineers engineers.
That's all I am saying.
>>That it takes developers to build these things is obvious, >>just as obvious as it takes engineers to build cars. But >>it's not engineers engineers engineers. Lol. Okay thats not a fair analogy. You build a parking garage, and you'll scream for "cars, cars, cars, cars". You build an airport and you'll scream for "planes, planes, planes, planes". Now when you build a platform like the app store, or the android market place, you'll scream for...
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I bet they couldn't get the broadcasting networks to agree and that is why it is just a bunch of old content not being shown...