CHAPTER 22
Mobile TV: The Future
The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
This chapter is not about the future of mobile TV. No one has been able to forecast the future in this industry, just as no one forecasted the rise of Google, YouTube, or Twitter. This is an industry in which new giants can emerge in a year’s time and existing businesses can sink into oblivion, just as paging did after cellphones came in. We do not fault Western Union for having evaluated the telephone as having “too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication,” as we do not fault Lord Kelvin Thomson for his prediction that “radio has no future.” But although the future cannot be predicted, there ...
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