Marc's Voice

Staying away from single sourced - anything

My years in this business have taught me a lot of lessons - one of the most important being - when a device or service relies upon ONE source, then it’s in trouble.  ONLY until having a second source of content, applications or services can a new platform or device flourish.

So that’s why I’ve stayed away from the Roku box - up until now.

Now the Roku box looks like it’s gonna have Amazon streaming movies - as well.

Now I’ll buy one.

On a related note - it’s also nice to hear that NetFlix is embedding itself into LG TV sets.

Both NetFlix and Amazon need to extend their reach and not lock themselves into one hardware device.  Same with Roku - they can’t afford to rely upon only one or two content sources.

See how the distributed open web works?