One Problem With Electronic Delivery

The rallying cry from many is that the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD war was pointless because we’ll all be getting our media delivered over the wire very soon anyway.

I have no doubt that will be true eventually, the real question is when.

In the mean time there are some significant problems to overcome with electronic delivery.

In a recent article in Slate, the author compares using desktop computing applications to software-as-a-service web-based applications.  The problems he runs into are pretty much the same ones you would run into with electronic delivery of video or other media.

For the time being, physical media still offers significant advantages in many areas.  There are certainly projects and applications where electronic delivery is a better choice, but it’s going to be a while before it’s the right choice for most situations.