You know, Google, the web already had this feature

Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature by return0 on Friday April 12, 2013 @04:33AM (#5537274)

This guy is right. A lot of it has to do with the demise of the PC too. You can't build a Napster on underpowered and severely restrictive phones and tablets, so the net is increasingly becoming the new cable TV.

However, by design, the internet is not destined to be like that, and it will not be. The past few years may have been an aberration.

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Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature by marcosdumay on Friday April 12, 2013 @01:55PM (#5540020)

Well, the phones and tablets get less underpowered and restrictive each day.

Current phones are way more powerfull than PCs were when Napster was launched. They could easily run something like it today. As they are also powerfull enough to decide what to do with meta tags (or the more modern semantic ones) and to keep several dictionaries of data in place. They just don't do that for marketing reasons.

I also think that things CAN change, but I doubt that change is that inevitable as you say.

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Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature by return0 on Sunday April 14, 2013 @03:59PM (#5548041)

How is it that they get less restrictive each day?

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