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# Why Time Warner and Comcast Are Scared
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/why-time-warner-and-comcast-are-scared/
- Published: 2011-03-17T10:57:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-30T02:12:16.000Z
- Description: Why TimeWarner and Comcast are scared.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Trends

There are plenty of jobs that I wouldn't want. Professional mover is one of them, particularly in NYC. Can someone say *five story walk-up?*

These days, you also can put executive for a cable company in that category. In case you didn't hear, the iPad 2 has HDMI capability. Now throw the following into the mix:

- Broadband's explosion
- Cheap or free content-rich sites and services like [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/?ref=philsimon.com), [GoogleTV](https://www.google.com/tv/?ref=philsimon.com), and [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/?ref=philsimon.com)
- Years of dissatisfied customers

Anyone want to have responsibility to maintaining (forget growing) cable-related revenues?

Cable companies are being disintermediated before our very eyes. Think that Time Warner's new app to allow you watch premium content over an iPad stems from benevolence or a true desire to improve the customer experience? I doubt it. The company is scared.

And they should be. Look at what happened to the music industry.