Thanks for the comment. You made some great points.

The middle man will disappear in a lot of industries.

I’m excited to see what Apple brings to the table (fruit table?) too. I’ve got an Apple TV box…and I think there’s a ton of room for improvement. Apple’s foray into the TV market will make things interesting. Will it become another Apple-dominated category?

Thanks for reading.

Eric

#5 I think that it is long overdue for the middleman to be cut out. It has already begun to happen in academic journals where people often have to pay both to publish and to even see their work once published. These guys are gatekeepers who often have axes to grind and who often take all the profit. Given the state of the art, I suspect they add little value.

#4 I have already seen some pushback such people dropping out of Facebook because of the loss of privacy.

#3 Apple will most likely join this fray with the long rumored Apple Television set. http://tinyurl.com/7qxhu8s They are masters at simplifying the interface. I suspect they will add games in the process. Apple is the North Korea of consumer electronics so we won’t know until they announce something and who knows if it is smoke. But if the rumors prove true, will they do to TV what they did to music?

#2 Already, I bake bread with the help of the cloud.

#1 Netflix and Best Buy both have the same problem — customer deafness. A recent Forbes article predicts the slow death of Best Buy because of it. My own experience there makes me believe Forbes is right. They could have written the same article about Netflix. If somebody comes along with a real customer focus such as King Arthur Flour has in the baking biz, Netflix is toast.