The future of television: Akimbo, Apple and Quicktime
Great article on Akimbo's new internet TV service on SiliconValley.com. Clearly, a new, long-anticipated market is being birthed here.
SV.com is right. Akimbo's a pioneer that will definitely get speared by the competition. And not just because they're using Windows Media, a sure sign of a company just asking to be rolled over by Redmond.
Question is, will Apple play in this new sandbox?
Quicktime is supposedly being overhauled. I've long been surprised that they don't already sell Xserves in TV station bundles - staking out turf that's still being fought for in the server market. Then again, maybe they've been biding their time knowing that services like Akimbo are on the horizon.
I think Internet TV simply converges with too many Apple product lines for Cupertino to ignore.
Talk about building the whole widget. iTV involves Large LCD screens, WiFi/Airport Extreme, Power Macs/iMacs with the FCP Production suite, Quicktime and Xserves.
I'm not talking about an iMovie store here (perhaps that can come later) but primarily a way for Apple to step ahead (once more) in the content creation game.
Question is, will they act on it? Will QT be up to the challenge?
Will media conglomerates finally get brought down to size by iTV?
SV.com is right. Akimbo's a pioneer that will definitely get speared by the competition. And not just because they're using Windows Media, a sure sign of a company just asking to be rolled over by Redmond.
Question is, will Apple play in this new sandbox?
Quicktime is supposedly being overhauled. I've long been surprised that they don't already sell Xserves in TV station bundles - staking out turf that's still being fought for in the server market. Then again, maybe they've been biding their time knowing that services like Akimbo are on the horizon.
I think Internet TV simply converges with too many Apple product lines for Cupertino to ignore.
Talk about building the whole widget. iTV involves Large LCD screens, WiFi/Airport Extreme, Power Macs/iMacs with the FCP Production suite, Quicktime and Xserves.
I'm not talking about an iMovie store here (perhaps that can come later) but primarily a way for Apple to step ahead (once more) in the content creation game.
Question is, will they act on it? Will QT be up to the challenge?
Will media conglomerates finally get brought down to size by iTV?
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Originally posted by murk
Check out this link for speculation along these lines. http://www.apple-x.net/modules.php?o...ticle&sid=1161
Thanks for the link. Great article.
Imagine if apple does to TV what they've done to music...
It boggles the mind.
Originally posted by murk
Check out this link for speculation along these lines. http://www.apple-x.net/modules.php?o...ticle&sid=1161
Holy crap. That article makes up for years worth of regurgitated dross on the "Mac Web."
Thanks for the link!
QuickTime is dead! Long live QuickTime!
Links to a few of the articles...
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iPod-Live
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GarageBand-Live
Apple's Connexion to Boeing
Originally posted by murk
Be sure to check out Neo's other articles on the site. All very interesting. At first I wondered if Kormac had found a new gig. Neo thinks along the same lines anyway. I'm beginning to believe that Quicktime might be more important to Apple's future than the Mac.
I've been saying that for *years*. Apple's finally seeing the fruits of many years of groundwork. MS figured out that it wasn't who controlled the hardware, but who controlled the OS and data formats that won the market. While they concentrated on computers, Apple looked up and saw huge entertainment industries to be tapped. Why bother with controlling the audio file format on your home PC, when you could control the very formats that the content *creators* use? They learned MS's lesson, and are taking it to the next level. This has been years in the making.
Sorry if I got carried away. Steve Earle's "The Revolution Starts Now" was playing in iTunes as I typed.
Something else related to this. This Merrill Lynch analysis doesn't mention internet based television or iChat AV? both of which would fit in well with any such Apple device.
Originally posted by murk
http://www.macminute.com/2004/11/29/...ainmentserver/
Something else related to this. This Merrill Lynch analysis doesn't mention internet based television or iChat AV? both of which would fit in well with any such Apple device.
BINGO! I agree, this is the Kormac dream. But it does seem like everything is falling into place.
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and Al gore is doing Internet TV. Isn't Al Gore on the board of directors of Apple?