I was cruising the internet for some tape references and found this commentary from Jazy.nets blog:
“Software’s rather brief commercial history, as even if extremely loosely defined, is only a hundred years or so old at most. This short run seems to be rapidly evolving into the oft-theorized brave new world: an end-state of medialess-ness. Most people and companies who have been involved in software development, up until very recently, have pushed their “soft” product in an oxymoronic “hard” shrink-wrapped box of some sort – all to generate traceable revenue at the cash register. Even the mighty (and once-mightier) Microsoft still sells physical license key cards for its software products, all the while clinging to whatever other shrink-wrapped products they can continue to push on their customers, even as they pivot and shift to the digital economy and distribution methods with their Xbox live services and others…”
Interesting commentary… it makes sense but i don’t think the era is dead by any means… more here.
Re-Blog: How the cloud killed the era of tangible intangibles
I was cruising the internet for some tape references and found this commentary from Jazy.nets blog:
“Software’s rather brief commercial history, as even if extremely loosely defined, is only a hundred years or so old at most. This short run seems to be rapidly evolving into the oft-theorized brave new world: an end-state of medialess-ness. Most people and companies who have been involved in software development, up until very recently, have pushed their “soft” product in an oxymoronic “hard” shrink-wrapped box of some sort – all to generate traceable revenue at the cash register. Even the mighty (and once-mightier) Microsoft still sells physical license key cards for its software products, all the while clinging to whatever other shrink-wrapped products they can continue to push on their customers, even as they pivot and shift to the digital economy and distribution methods with their Xbox live services and others…”
Interesting commentary… it makes sense but i don’t think the era is dead by any means… more here.
http://blog.jazy.net/2011/04/26/the-era-of-wasting-resources-on-intangibles-seems-to-be-rapidly-coming-to-an-end/