Was watching TV today and was thinking, whatever happened to that Intel Media Streaming Box from few years ago? I had volunteered as a beta tester and remember all the circuit articles talking about it being the next multi-billion dollar business.
Then I thought, what about that smart watch, not the one that catches fire, but with TAG Heuer? That watch at least looked nice.
It's just so disappointing to see so many products fail.
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Not sure where this places on the list of colossal f ups by Intel execs. But it’s in the team picture for sure. Along with HomeRF, WiMAX, Rambus, LCOS, and of course McAfee.
Platform relied heavily on FCC regulations for on premise devices. This was next generation after cablecard, but adoption rates were dwindling. Intel intentions were to design a direct to consumer platform. Carriers made all attempts to block consumers that did not know how to file an FCC complaint. Intel had no relationship with carriers, so sold off what they could before taking huge loss.
Nothing - intel id--ts did not get it that the differentiator is content and distribution. the pretend 'influentials' just wanted to be seen as doing something even if profoundly ineffective and thought they could buy market interest.
I think the media box was sold off to Verizon or something like that.
Sorry , I meant to say ViiV, not vPro
who can ever forget vPro!