Comments on: Apple Triple Play: iTunes, App TV and Apple Television

By: Analyst: Big Potential for Apple in Connected TV Market | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:18:20 +0000

[...] subscription plan and you’d have a compelling offering indeed. But as I’ve noted here before, TV hardware is a tough business and the cable companies are wary of any offering that might threaten existing subscription [...]

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By: Apple’s iTunes pitch: TV for $30 a month - Talk about Deal – Blog

Apple’s iTunes pitch: TV for $30 a month - Talk about Deal – Blog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:16:30 +0000

[...] so-called “over the top” service could theoretically rival the ones most consumers already buy from cable TV operators–if Apple is able to get enough buy-in from broadcast and cable TV [...]

By: Apple iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 Per Month | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:38:48 +0000

By: Apple Finally Gets Around to Updating Apple TV « Tech7.Net

Apple Finally Gets Around to Updating Apple TV « Tech7.Net — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:24:37 +0000

[...] As Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote back in August: “Apple could leverage its deep library of content with many network and cable channel content owners to provide unlimited access to a sub-library of its TV shows for a standard monthly fee ($30 or $40 per month).” [...]

By: Apple Finally Gets Around to Updating Apple TV | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:08:28 +0000

[...] on an overhauled device that will offers DVR capabilities and support iTunes TV show subscriptions. As Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote back in August, “Apple could leverage its deep library of content with many network and cable channel content [...]

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:11:30 +0000

@Brendan: “What’s with the hobby thing anyway? Seemed like a senseless thing for Jobs to say and worse when repeated by Cook. For those who have bought the device hearing it referred to as a hobby is insulting. Not sure what they hope to accomplish with those statements.”

More to salve their egos than to please customers. Like saying, “It was a flop, but we weren’t really trying very hard.”

You can bet if Apple achieves any success in the area it will be due to careful timing of the marketplace that only a genius could come up with, blah, blah, blah.

Apple has given up on computers as a driver of long term growth. Problem with that is they have to hit a home run every time at bat every two or three years now as they re-invent themselves again and again.

It will continue to look like genius until the first time they flop on something they can’t claim was a hobby.

Based on their big new data center, I think we are about to find out what that flop is.

By: Vince Ford

Vince Ford — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:24:07 +0000

I am not convinced that the opportunity for AppleTV is as great as implied above.

For example, everyone I know who has cancelled cable service has done so to save money and enjoy on-demand consumption by streaming to their TV through a $10 per month NetFlix account and/or free content from Hulu. Why would you pay $20-30 per month to Apple for free content?

The PS3 and Xbox already support this content delivery method natively or through 3rd party software, include DVD or BRDVD playback, and handle gaming just fine.

Apple could accomplish an elegant, and more popular solution through a revised MacMini that includes BR/DVD, integrated AppleTV software and easy access to NetFlix and Hulu. I haven’t met one person willing to spend $200 for AppleTV – because of the hardware or the content model, but know several willing to spend $600 for a device that combines all of the features above. In fact, most MacMini’s that I have encountered have been used as a hacked version of this solution.

By: Brendan Walsh

Brendan Walsh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:27:55 +0000

Where was Apple in March when DirecTV was negotiating with the NFL to renew Sunday Ticket? All the billions in the Apple cash vault could have gotten a piece of the NFL pie. That alone would promote Apple TV from hobby status overnight.

What’s with the hobby thing anyway? Seemed like a senseless thing for Jobs to say and worse when repeated by Cook. For those who have bought the device hearing it referred to as a hobby is insulting. Not sure what they hope to accomplish with those statements.

Apple should take a hard look at the MLB deal Roku has. It’s what Apple should have done with the NFL.

By: Chris Knape

Chris Knape — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:43:49 +0000

The market for these explodes when Apple cuts a deal with AT&T to provide Apple TV hardware/software for its U-Verse TV, replacing the POS Motorola/Microsoft units it now provides.

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Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:25:51 +0000

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By: David Owens

David Owens — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:12:50 +0000

Perhaps the alleged itablet will let us take tv with us, rather than us having to go to tv. While I like watching tv from my easy chair, I can see a device that would allow portable television. Perhaps this device could also let users read books and newspapers, listen to music, play games, create and edit documents, surf the web, take and store notes, store photographs, download applications, watch movies and video of course, do conference calls and have gps maps. the biggest hurdle is the tiny incremental bandwith steps taken by those robber barons, the phone companies. Where is bill gates with his satellite system when we need him?