Just say, “I’m never going to buy an Apple TV because I want to use a hideous and unintuitive interface and manually manage every single piece of my content with separate metadata and subtitle files.”
You've clearly never used a jailbroken ATV2 have you?
As an owner of one I can confirm that my meta data and subtitles to my infinite collection of free movies and tv shows, often in HD and some in 3D, are all updated manually through a highly logical and customisable interface.
However there are people that would prefer to wait an extra 6 months and pay over the odds for their content, just because it comes in a familiar layout.
Exactly. TiVo provides all of the Internet content, plus allowing you to record 4 (6 if cable) broadcast shows simultaneously. Then stream that recorded content to your iPad/iPhone whenever you want. Now with out of home streaming, you can watch your stuff anywhere. Exclusively on Apple iDevices. Apple should buy TiVo, incorporate their tech into ATV, and the battle would be over.
With a current market cap of about $1.5 billion, Cook could write that check ($2 billion would probably take TiVo) and replenish the funds in no time. The key would be (properly and effectively) integrating the TiVo technology into the Apple ecosystem. But I'm not sure that Cook would have a plan for doing that, any more than he has (so far) shown for developing the AppleTV into something more than a hobby. I'm not an early adopter. And if a device doesn't do something I actually want or need, I don't buy it (just to have it). And unfortunately, right now, the AppleTV adds no value to my (infrequent) TV watching.
With a market cap of almost $59 billion, Time Warner, Inc. would be a big pill to swallow. But I'd love to see Apple be able to offer HBO/Cinemax (and other cable networks) on an a la carte basis. Without a way to break the mafia that controls distribution, I don't see how Apple is going to be able to offer a truly unique viewing experience. I'll keep hoping though...
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Just say, “I’m never going to buy an Apple TV because I want to use a hideous and unintuitive interface and manually manage every single piece of my content with separate metadata and subtitle files.”
You've clearly never used a jailbroken ATV2 have you?
As an owner of one I can confirm that my meta data and subtitles to my infinite collection of free movies and tv shows, often in HD and some in 3D, are all updated manually through a highly logical and customisable interface.
However there are people that would prefer to wait an extra 6 months and pay over the odds for their content, just because it comes in a familiar layout.
Exactly. TiVo provides all of the Internet content, plus allowing you to record 4 (6 if cable) broadcast shows simultaneously. Then stream that recorded content to your iPad/iPhone whenever you want. Now with out of home streaming, you can watch your stuff anywhere. Exclusively on Apple iDevices. Apple should buy TiVo, incorporate their tech into ATV, and the battle would be over.
With a current market cap of about $1.5 billion, Cook could write that check ($2 billion would probably take TiVo) and replenish the funds in no time. The key would be (properly and effectively) integrating the TiVo technology into the Apple ecosystem. But I'm not sure that Cook would have a plan for doing that, any more than he has (so far) shown for developing the AppleTV into something more than a hobby. I'm not an early adopter. And if a device doesn't do something I actually want or need, I don't buy it (just to have it). And unfortunately, right now, the AppleTV adds no value to my (infrequent) TV watching.
With a market cap of almost $59 billion, Time Warner, Inc. would be a big pill to swallow. But I'd love to see Apple be able to offer HBO/Cinemax (and other cable networks) on an a la carte basis. Without a way to break the mafia that controls distribution, I don't see how Apple is going to be able to offer a truly unique viewing experience. I'll keep hoping though...