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.
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 »
As many have pointed out lately, Apple TV is a strange product. Some have called it the most disappointing product others the second worst gadget of the year 2007. It looks great, works great (not broken), but what is it really for? I get a fairly strong feeling that what it’s for has yet to materialize - in the sense that it’s something that was supposed to arrive, and that might be here soon. If everything goes according to plan…
There isn’t much bad you can say about Apple’s performance these days, and it’s probably nice as a journalist to be able to pick at something. And obviously the Apple TV isn’t of much use as it stands today. But we have to assume, based on Apple’s recent track record, that they didn’t intend to leave the Apple TV as it is.
So what is going on here?
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