The Browser Wars Over?
You have been put on notice: the browser wars are over. Moz doesn’t matter. IE is irrelevant. Opera is doing a swan song. Why? In a word, iTunes. And the implications for everyone from Web publishers to you, the hyper-clocked tricked-out geek, are enormous. In fact, being the hyper geek means you can cash in on this trend now. You heard it here first.
An unlikely sounding take on the direction web based content might be taking over at Tom’s Hardware Guide - that is, at first glance - but then, given a little more thought, it might not be so unlikely after all…
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well since itunes 4.9 has crashed my mac, and will no longer work; and on the gf’s PC the “podcast” feature just freezes the program, well they’re starting from a dfefecit compared to what a revelation firefox was as a tool rich, fast, user-life-changing experience. still I can see the point, that in the end it’s the best content delivery mechanism that will win, and iTunes (and presumably iVids in the next couple of years) could be the way to go.
I was talking to a guy the other day though about ipods (and he’s kinda a guruish guy) and I said it was CRAZY that voice recordings on ipods were not an original feature (are they possible now??); his answer was “no one could have predicted that podcasting would become so big.” To which I responded ?????
To me, what that meant was: apple wants you to CONSUME, not make art! if everyone starts making art how is anyone going to make any money?
What made firefox so great was the tabbed browsing and rss feeding all of which (i suspect) become most interesting for bloggers and blog readers, since it allows you to keep track of things you want to comment on.
In other words the internet is growing up and allowing 2-way communication, and absent that iTunes (mark whatever) will just be another television. Or something.
Comment by mackinaw — Fri 15 Jul. 2005 @ 03:07 pm
Whoa! iTunes crashing the system… I haven’t had any such problems with 4.9, nor with any previous version either, so I can’t imagine what’s wrong there. MacFixit forums might be a good place to check.
In any event, along with all their _insanely great_ solutions, Apple has certainly had their fair share of sub-optimal decisions and doubtful policies pursued with a very particular reticence - enough, at times, to drive even the most avid supporter to distraction!
At this stage it’s still too early to judge how and in which way the iTunes podcasting (and later video) market will develop. While they still have much to learn from and with the content producing community, the success of the iPod and the iTunes Music Store has laid a foundation that holds enormous potential.
It’s all unchartered territory, though, with intense competition bound to be coming from all sides - from M$, Google, Yahoo, and and and…
While I don’t imagine that the browser based web experience will be supplanted all that soon (Firefox and its extensions are only beginning to roll, really) there’s definitely something to be said for the idea of richer, more specialized applications, like iTunes, gaining significant traction.
All in all, an exiting time to live in!
Comment by sennosen — Sat 16 Jul. 2005 @ 02:07 am