Stig Östlund

söndag, april 29, 2012

In Search of Apps for Television

The same consumers who delight in navigating the iPad still click frustratingly through cable channels to find a basketball game. Their complaint: Why can’t television be more like a tablet?

The technology industry is trying to address that question for the millions of customers ready to embrace the next generation of viewing options. In the process it could transform the clunky cable interface, with its thousands of channels and a bricklike remote control, into a series of apps that pop up on the television screen. /New York Times 

Read more >> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/business/media/developers-are-working-on-television-apps-but-tv-industry-is-wary.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120428

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