The significance of the new LIVE 5000 Wi-Fi speaker lies within its versatility and its multi-room, multi-platform operation.
The more interesting implication of network effects analysis is whether the Android-iOS duopoly leaves room for any other mobile platform.
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Its long-rumored Steam Box is genuinely in production right now, and fans of the company are hoping that it can strike a blow for PC gamers everywhere by bringing the platform to living room televisions.
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Until 1960 they actually decided things, complete with platform fights, back-room deals and occasional fisticuffs.
These are small, but the point is that because Google is developing around their own platform, they have more room to offer more personal touches.
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So, I would assume at a certain point in the future that the living room is going to be the more important platform than the PC.
With Sound Platform 2, consumers can fill a room with powerful, balanced sound and true stereo separation.
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When asked if they would use this platform at home every hand in the room shot up in the air to show their enthusiasm for the new resources.
So Microsoft turned the Xbox 360 into the dominant games console, not by making a better gaming machine, but by giving people a platform for getting more out of their living room.
Microsoft also still seems like a reasonable choice, given their increasing push into the living room and the repositioning of Xbox as more of an entertainment platform.
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They would have known that they would not get the Windows Phone playground to themselves, but to have Microsoft swing in and push their own handset as opposed to the whole platform will lead to some long conversations in the board room over strategy and alternatives.
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However, Google already attempted to refine the living room entertainment experience by releasing numerous iterations of Google TV, a Smart TV platform co-developed by Sony, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI).
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The cell is a small, windowless room painted a nondescript beige, with a gun-metal gray floor and concrete sleeping platform.
But if I speak from a platform that relies on how I look, I worry that I will not have made room for anyone else to come after me.
The Super Bowl was a favorite platform: Who can forget the 2000 ad in which a man is wheeled into an emergency room?
My pick: Room 609, which has a bathroom in one of the round towers, with a tub on a raised platform right by the window.
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