It is well known that environmental conditions like convective instability, aerosol loading, and availability of moisture content affect the polarity of charge structures of thunderstorms.
Speaking of Amazon's latest announcement, Horowitz remarked that "it's hardware, software and content – and increasingly, to play in that field, if you don't have great access, great pricing and great availability of content, you probably can't compete in the computer business," he said, "which is really a new thing".
Two of the primary factors that drive technology adoption are the availability of hardware and the availability of content or applications.
There might be more customization and availability of on-demand content in the future, but it seems like this snake is going to end up eating its own tail.
"But we continue to contain it through legal and educational means and combat it with increasing availability of content so that consumers can choose a more convenient and hopefully more satisfying legitimate way of accessing all of our content".
Cost, availability of content and convenience are all key motivators.
I covered Freedom House's 2014 report, which found that Internet freedom, as measured by online access, availability of content, and the robustness of civil rights, had declined for the fifth straight year.
Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis realises things are bad in the PlayBook App Store: "We recognize that the current availability of content and applications for PlayBook has limited the near-term uptake of the device in the market, and we are actively working with key partners to deliver the most desired applications and content to our targeted market segments".
The long-running BitTorrent protocol allows many different peers to advertise the availability of content, and for a client on a single user's computer to create hundreds of connections to retrieve pieces of large files simultaneously and reassemble them on the fly.
