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Andrew Lane in
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July 12th, 2011 |
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Big media companies have never been comfortable with the Web: It’s sprawling, messy, hard to corral and even harder to turn into a profit center.
But many of those same companies tend be much more optimistic about smartphones: The platforms seem manageable and finite, and consumers seem willing to pay for stuff on an iPhone or Android that they’d never shell out for on their laptops.
I think that conventional wisdom is overblown — more wishful than realistic. Still, it’s the conventional wisdom among many media executives I talk to.
Here’s a nice...