True, but it is also an opportunity for satellite and cable providers to expand into new areas possibly. It is hard to say how this would work or what impact it may have, but it is certainly possible it may help to change the landscape of the industry and perhaps shift things a little more in favor of the consumer. As the article pointed out, it is unlikely that people would purchase TV shows and the like piecemeal, but yet maybe that isn't a bad option either. I'd love to make it possible to only subscribe to shows that would interest me. As an example, we have the least expensive package Dish offers because there is only a handful of shows my wife and son watch and I don't bother with any of it, since there's nothing I'm interested in. However, if I could configure a package that gave them what they wanted and perhaps found stuff I wanted, it would be a perfect solution and better that then maybe I could just watch it on my machine instead of sitting in front of the TV. Maybe this is also an opportunity to push the idea to Apple in making the iTV accessible as well. Apple has been smart to branch out and seek other venues for their business and that type of diversity is beneficial for them and us as well. I agree, it will be interesting to see how things play out. On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Larry Wanger wrote:
> Scott, > > This is an interesting read, especially the bits on TV shows. I was > reading something on Sunday where a Microsoft Executive was warning > the television industry that Apple could do to it what it’s done to > music. Apparently the fact that they made it easy for consumers to > purchase what they wanted, albums or song by song and in an > extremely easy way has been a problem for the record companies. And > that we don’t go down to the record store and purchase albums. You > can bet the cable companies are going to line up and fight this. I > think this will be different than how music went because, while you > had a few big chains of record stores that lost out because we don’t > purchase CDs along with a lot of mom and pop shops, with TV shows > you’ve got billion dollar corporations that stand in the way as > distributors. You can bet that these guys (Comcast, Cox, Time > Warner) and others aren’t going to just let this happen. Could be > entertaining to watch how new technology and product distribution > methods battle with dinosaur cable and satellite companies. > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 1:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Fwd: Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers > within a year > > Folks, I know there has been a lot of excitement > about SL, but I wanted to share this article, which updates some > other areas Apple is working on. One of these is about the iPhone > and even the future of the Apple TV perhaps. > Check it out, there are some interesting bits in here.Begin > forwarded message: > > > Date: August 31, 2009 9:00:00 AM EDT > Subject: Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within > a year > Source: AppleInsider > > > Apple's worldwide single-carrier exclusivity model for each nation > is seen as fleeting, as a new report suggests the iPhone could be > available for carriers other than AT&T in the U.S. within a year. > > Read more… > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
