Fake Steve on The Huffington Post and what it means for traditional media news and content:
And what are the old media guys doing, when they should be out there reinventing their business? Why, they’re talking to Congress and trying to get a bailout for newspapers. Good Lord! That’s like organizing a bailout for black-and-white TV.
Of course, every new paradigm shift comes with good news and bad news.
The good news is, we’re heading toward a period of incredible creativity in news and entertainment, with a new medium that is far superior to ink on paper. The bad news, at least from my perspective, is that I’ll be selling a piece of hardware whose success depends on whether the content guys can dream up cool new things to do with this piece of hardware. And, as we’ve already established, most of them are bozos.
If content is king, where’s the prince, the heir apparent, the revolutionary, the future?
Somewhere out there, a genius is waiting to be discovered—the Orson Welles of digital media, someone who will create an entirely new language for storytelling. If you’re reading this, Orson Jr., please get in touch. I’ve got something I want to show you.
Unfortunately, regarding traditional media, Fake Steve misses the difference between content creation and content distribution. That said, Apple is smack in the middle of both.