Good article in NYT by David Carr:
Studios may own the copyright and content, but if Apple achieves anywhere near the penetration in movies that it has achieved in music, the studios could become vassals in a closed digital community, ginning up content that is controlled, priced and distributed by someone else.
A new deal with movie studios where they would start releasing movies simultaneously online and on DVD is expected soon.
Apple seems to love trying things out in public. They launch a technology and then sit back and see what happens. They watch and learn. Later, you will almost always see that technology develop and spread to their other products.
Apple has realized that the next battle is the user experience. Circumstances have played into their hands on this one, since they have always been about the user experience. They were definitely before their time, kind of prophetic, but now their time has come.
Microsoft is still bigger, but they are struggling. Dell has the server advantage, but they are already a lesser company. Google is Apple’s friend and a very interesting ally, but they are on different paths. Nokia has lost the game, I doubt they will be able to rise above this, but who knows. (more on this in other articles)
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Here’s the story.
As some people predicted when NBC left iTunes doors slamming to pursue Hulu.com, they would be back within a year. I’m sure Apple will be glad to have them back, NBC has a lot of good content at the moment (Heroes, House MD, etc).
Hulu.com has been getting some good press, it’s a nice looking site, but they clearly don’t have the muscle iTunes has. Both Hulu and iTunes have been struggling to add TV shows and movies to international iTunes stores, and things are starting to move along a little lately. But maybe NBC is realizing they better stick with Apple before they get left behind.
Sorry to say so, but that’s the truth. And if not going down, at least they are in trouble.
I don’t think I will be buying a Nokia again. Actually, the Nokia phones I’ve had have all worked pretty well. There might be exceptions, but at least all the Nokias I’ve used have been sturdy and even battery life has been ok.
The problem is not the hardware, but the software. Or actually, it’s not even the software that’s the real problem. It’s time. Nokia hasn’t been moving fast enough. And now it might be too late. To be a market leader makes you arrogant, it seems, and sooner or later arrogance will cost you. It’s just a law of business.
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Michael Lopp, a senior engineering manager at Apple, was at the recent SxSW conference and talked about Apple’s design process.
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Would it be worth it for Apple to start selling “regular” TV sets?
There’s one or many TV sets in pretty much every home in the western world, as well as in Asia and other parts of the world. Many may have already updated their sets with nice new flatscreens. But the whole TV scene is going to change a lot more in the coming few years. It would be a huge opportunity for Apple to get into every livingroom.
First of all, TV is dead. Or it will be, as we know it, in a few years. After you’ve downloaded the videos you really want to watch to your computer and watched them right there on your computer screen, or on Apple TV, you’ll know what I’m talking about. TV is old. Even watching TV on the computer gives you so many more features that there’s just no fun going back. Read the rest of this entry »
Haven’t had time to write much lately.
As you already know Apple has had a busy first two months this year.
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