Comments on: Analysts: Apple may have better shot at Apple TV outside the US

By: Duh

Duh — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:05:59 +0000

This idiot analyst either states the obvious or is hair brained off base. There’s no middle. In this case, he does both. Apple is stymied…wow,thanks Einstein. They’re late to the game, by a. Long shot. Absent middle ground? Gee, what revelation. There won’t be a new telco filling that niche…it’ll be filled in time by the current major players responding in their due time to the shifts in demanded access to content. Period! No need for idiotic analyst pay scale here. Just plain recognizing what’s right in front of us without meaningless babble.

By: CfC

CfC — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:30:35 +0000

This vortex of Apple folklore has been twisting around since the Jobs bio touched on him “cracking TV’s interface”.

It’s likely a myth and part of the reality distortion field. Certainly it’s kept people interested in Apple’s growth prospects.

Unless you start producing some multi billion dollar content, you aren’t gonna be in the TV biz.

Aggregators need not apply. The cable TV guys already are the interface. Like it or not.

Lets get on to some real articles.

By: jjj

jjj — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:26:02 +0000

You can’t sell 1k+ $ hardware with content deals, analysts need to wake up.
The TV can change but this is not it (and voice control is not it either).

By: Christian Perry

Christian Perry — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:19:09 +0000

Cook can bring TV content producers a way to reach consumers directly, rather than through the arcane labyrinth better known as the modern cable telco.

We still live with the assumption that a television show airs for the primary benefit of a real-time televised audience tuned in through a set-top box (or, as an edge case, through a DVR). What we don’t consider is that many of the same companies that produce content for a network or cable company could instead produce content directly to consumers and fans.

With a fast-growing Apple TV userbase that’s already over 5 million people, how far fetched is it that Apple could do for independent TV what it’s already done for the independent musician?

By: paul quickenden

paul quickenden — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:43:06 +0000

you analysts really need to get out into the est of the world and look at what us second class content citizens are actually doing….

Because of the archaic business models we are effectively geo fenced from the US content… Apple TV (and Xbox etc) are ways around it ,but with some tweaks….

for instance, we can go thru all the hassel of getting a US based itunes account, buy gift vouchers and suddenly see a whole new world of content…
Xbox, you use unblock dns – same experience…

What is absolutely moronic, those of us who do all of this, are actually providing the media companies with more money… money they are doing their best not to take…