Like Mark Ramsey, I've been posting about the dramatic implications of mobile WiMAX for the radio broadcasting and satellite radio businesses. He brings a credible research perspective to the question and I think this essay is particularly important. He writes:
... In fact, as this new Google/Sprint deal suggests, the availability of audio entertainment wirelessly and in real-time will permanently alter the very experience and definition of radio. ΒΆ That's because the portable radio-like devices will be pointless unless they are much more than redundant to radio. Like the Internet itself these new gadgets will be en ecosystem, a platform for plug-ins which are produced by programmers in every corner of the world and which add an infinite variety of functionality and customization - gadgets which enhance the radio experience in multiple sensory dimensions making it, as a result, much, much more than radio alone. ...
Link: hear2.0. --Dennis
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