In the battle for customer loyalty across an ecosystem (phones, tablet, laptops, desktops, televisions) of devices and geographies, Netflix is an attractive acquisition target.
In the long term, Apple is competing for people's attention and loyalty across all of its devices, whether that's the smartphone, desktop, laptop, television and even car.
Millennials use an average of three screens every day, whereas members of Gen Z use five: tablet, desktop, laptop, television and a smartphone.
GeoSentric – the new name for Geoconnections, which was acquired by Finland-based Benefon – is also developing consumer and business applications that integrate a mobile user's world with their desktop, digital television and media players.
The automated marketplace tracks ads across mobile, desktop and television screens, and advertisers can purchase ad time according to that data.
This is the first spill that has been covered in real time, with streaming high-definition video on desktops and televisions everywhere, network anchors racking up miles flying back and forth, and throbbing info-graphics that track the mess.
Besides laptops, Olivetti also studied tablet computers, monitors, desktops, servers, televisions, and several electrical equipment products including bulbs and motors.
Although 51% of industry revenue comes from smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and televisions, those five categories will fall to less than half of industry revenue a year from now as nascent product categories gain ground, said Shawn DuBravac, chief economist of the Consumer Technology Assn.
The others must make do with the other things that are only available on weekends: desktop computer games, television and assorted video games, until a parent is awake enough to adjudicate whose turn is next.
