Twitter was going to die.
Privacygate was going to destroy Facebook.
The iPhone 4 will turn Cupertino into a wasteland and Apple will fall.
Anyone else getting tired of the Media Internet Deathwatches? Because I am.
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The Last Failbender
OK, let me put it simply:
- The Last Airbender film sounds like a dismal mess.
- I haven't seen it, so my commentary is based more on the reactions I've seen and what I think they mean.
- Whenever I do see it, I somehow doubt even if I enjoy it, it'll change much of #2.
So, let us ask, progeek and profan-wise, what the incredibly bad reviews and dismal reception for the Last Airbender film mean for future media endeavors. This is a big enough flop, that I think it bears analysis.
So let's break this down into things I'm sure about and think are possible, and are unsure about.
Backlog and The End of Backlog
So the iPad is here to deliver our media, tablets are on their way to challenge the iPad, smartphones are there when we don't have tablets . . .
There's going to be a lot of way to get our content in the future.
Of course, not all that content is going to be new content. Past games will be recompiled or emulated. Comics wlll be scanned, books digitized or re-digitized. New content is going to compete with old content.
I've speculated before about this competition – simply delivering old content in many ways is faster and cheaper, and represents a huge backlog of easy-to-deploy content. For those of us in the content/media business, a truly geeky area, that's important as it will affect what we do and what we produce. We need to observe this competition.