{"id":2103,"date":"2016-01-09T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2016-01-09T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T18:26:09","slug":"entertainment-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2016\/01\/entertainment-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Me when I find some fascinating charts:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a great one showing a few things:<\/p>\n

– Social Media exploded. We all know when this happened and how we can\u2019t stop<\/em>.<\/p>\n

– Audio (music and podcasts) is still huge. We forget about it because music is so everywhere for free<\/em>.<\/p>\n

– Games are last and barely grew in terms of consumption. Game production on the other hand, exploded.<\/p>\n

I am still asking here and there what people play and it\u2019s clear that 25-35 people don\u2019t play games that much, social media is the main game. And if they play, they don\u2019t want to mention it. Saying that you\u2019re using [insert favorite social network] a lot is fine though. It\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n

Slow gaming growth with supply exploding (500 new games a day on iOS, over a billion games available on Steam) means we\u2019re going to hit some harder truth soon.<\/p>\n

So when I see a vast excitement about VR, that is demanding a $2K investment upfront to properly enjoy it, cutting you off from the real world and even digital social interactions\u2026 Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, social media is making money thanks to games:<\/p>\n

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Interestingly it\u2019s mostly in Asia. It\u2019s confusing to see all those trends kind of cancelling each other out. The West is not into games like that so I wonder where revenue for WhatsApp and others will be coming from.<\/p>\n

One last one that I find interesting:<\/p>\n

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The sharing experience doesn\u2019t need to improve, it\u2019s easy to share music. It\u2019s just that people don\u2019t want to do it. Why? I think because music is deeply personal. I might listen to the same song for an hour. I might listen to that very, very silly song by a very big artist. I might listen to something you can\u2019t listen to for more than ten seconds. I might be listening to that artist because I don\u2019t know her\/him while everybody knows the lyrics to those songs. Music is personal. You share music with people in real life, live. In a notification center? It adds nothing to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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