Distribution is King.
Those who control distribution set the price.
Why Content Is King
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#13Content is not king, and Andrew Odlyzko explains why:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=235282
At the time he wrote it, the whole of Hollywood yearly revenue made less than 2 weeks of telcos’, and SMS by itself was worth more (SMS has been commoditized since, to the benefit of Apple and Facebook).
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#14Content sells the tech. The tech makes the most money though. Microsoft is 1 tril bigger in market cap than Disney. Strange to use a Bill gates quote and then discuss Disney films. Nintendo as a company makes more money on selling consoles, than on Zelda. The article touches on this and could expand on it. No new tech launch is going to work without content, so in that sense it is king, but the money is in the tech.
It's a little strange relationship. Tech without content can't survive. Whereas good content can spread far and wide without tech.
>It's a little strange relationship. Tech without content can't survive.
I'm pretty sure it can. Just not entertainment tech (game consoles, etc).
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It can't though. Books, printing presses, etc. are all forms of technology. Good content can't as easily propagate and proliferate without the infrastructure created by the tooling that supports the activity. You might be inclined to state that this belabors the point of being specific about modern Web technologies, but still - the medium is the message. They are still linked even if the underlying technologies chang…
Good content can't propagate as fast without technology, but it can spread far and wide. The "tech" used in spreading the Iliad and the Ramayana was the spoken word. And yet they spread across countries and cultures.
Well, good tech can propagate even further and wider.
Nobody cared/cares (where nobody=very few) for the Iliad or Ramayama on the other sides of the world that created them.
But technologies created on each side quickly reached the other side or spread all over the globe. This includes primitive technologies which we tend to forget they are technologies like agriculture, the wheel, iron forging, etc.
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#16Content sells the tech. The tech makes the most money though. Microsoft is 1 tril bigger in market cap than Disney. Strange to use a Bill gates quote and then discuss Disney films. Nintendo as a company makes more money on selling consoles, than on Zelda. The article touches on this and could expand on it. No new tech launch is going to work without content, so in that sense it is king, but the money is in the tech.
> Nintendo as a company makes more money on selling consoles, than on Zelda.
In revenue or profit? It’s kind of definitional that there’s more revenue from the console than the game given that for any console you need to purchase on average ~1 game at most and a game is worth far less than a console. However, it’s my understanding consoles are generally loss leaders, priced at or below cost in anticipation of profit driven by sales of content.
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#17Content sells the tech. The tech makes the most money though. Microsoft is 1 tril bigger in market cap than Disney. Strange to use a Bill gates quote and then discuss Disney films. Nintendo as a company makes more money on selling consoles, than on Zelda. The article touches on this and could expand on it. No new tech launch is going to work without content, so in that sense it is king, but the money is in the tech.
> Nintendo as a company makes more money on selling consoles, than on Zelda. In revenue or profit? It’s kind of definitional that there’s more revenue from the console than the game given that for any console you need to purchase on average ~1 game at most and a game is worth far less than a console. However, it’s my understanding consoles are generally loss leaders, priced at or below cost in anticipation of profit…
68mil Nintendo Switches sold.
19mil Breath of the Wild (Zelda)
21mil Smash bros
28mil Animal Crossing
The gamecube and the wii were reasonably cheap hardware with a markup. I haven't researched the switch, it looks no different to me.
*updated to sep2020 figs
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#18Conflating "media" and "content" is the issue here. Facebook is successful because of content. Google+ failed because there wasn't any content. Heading tech up against content in some way is also a silly argument. Good tech supports the transmission of content. Bad tech gets in the way. Good content is enabled by good tech. Ultimately, a web page with some stirring, moving or life changing words on it is going to hav…
Most content on Facebook is garbage. So more accurately it's addictive content that fits the algorithm which is important. For that to happen, you need users. Typical chicken and egg problem.
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#19Conflating "media" and "content" is the issue here. Facebook is successful because of content. Google+ failed because there wasn't any content. Heading tech up against content in some way is also a silly argument. Good tech supports the transmission of content. Bad tech gets in the way. Good content is enabled by good tech. Ultimately, a web page with some stirring, moving or life changing words on it is going to hav…
> Google+ failed
Google itself has lots of (free) content. Search is a medium
While stirring content may exist (where is it?) , it rarely meets big tech (so it can be win-win for both)
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#20A good start would be to stop using this stupid terminology. Quoting RMS [0]: I think it is ok for authors (please let's not call them creators, they are not gods) to ask for money for copies of their works (please let's not devalue these works by calling them content) in order to gain income (the term compensation falsely implies it is a matter of making up for some kind of damages). [0] https://web.archive.org/web/…
"Consuming" always irritates me. We don't read written works or watch videos, we consume content.