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Who will control the second screen?

“TV channels have been successful in winning the battle for the second screen,” according to Orange’s Patrice Slupowski.

Speaking at Parks Associates’ Connections Europe 2013 conference in Amsterdam he said this could change in the next few years, “Zapping from one TV channel to another takes about a second, but moving from one TV app to another takes three seconds as minimum.

From the article, "Who will control the second screen?" by Robert Briel.

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