Cable Industry Under Attack. Thank God!
MG Siegler at TechCrunch has a focused and well-thought-out piece today on how several high-tech behemoths are beginning an all-out assault on the horror that is our cable industry. "Innovation always tops greed and complacency. Always," he writes. I want to believe that in the broadest sense. But he made me believe it in the context of cable. I cannot honestly remember the last day I didn't fume at Comcast. Siegler nails some of the key reasons for that; my tech-centric life is filled with dozens of user experiences every day, every one of which is as much better than the cable experience as 3D movies are than radio. And we get to pay premium prices for the crappy experience just because they can make us do so by their near monopolies. Cable is entrenched. It's not going to disappear next week or next year. But the big companies leveling their guns at that space at the same time are not all going to miss. And any one of them can be the fatal shot.
