Competition is always a good thing in any industry. The more competitors, the more innovation drives device development, and the more benefits consumers reap in return. It’s one reason why I’ll never shirk any newcomers to new tech genres.
My colleague Sanuj Bhatia agrees. In a recent, rather controversial piece, he argues that where Google TV stumbles and falls in the TV streaming hardware space, Amazon continues to plod along, and Apple offers impressive hardware with its own set of shortcomings, there’s one big tech player that isn’t operating: Microsoft.
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