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  • No, Apple's licensing of iTunes & AirPlay 2 isn't a 'strategy reversal' in any way

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    Apple stole the limelight at CES without even appearing as an exhibitor, thanks to a series of announcements from Samsung and a series of other television makers incorporating Apple's AirPlay 2 wireless streaming in their products, including LG, Sony and Vizio. This news was cynically portrayed as a "strategy reversal" and a new effort at "copying Microsoft" by the Wall Street Journal -- and out here in the real world, it is nothing of the sort.


    Apple seems to think people will use AirPlay 2 on a variety of devices once they get a taste


    In his piece "Apple's Next Move: Be More Like Microsoft," Christopher Mims portrayed Apple as making a "radical shift in its corporate strategy" by licensing the AirPlay protocol and supporting iTunes content playback on non-Apple platforms.


    Most of the coverage of CES that I saw was about Google Assistant getting into everything and challenging Alexa in the Home. This is just Apple desperately playing catchup. About time on HomeKit and AirPlay getting into more products.    They should have been doing this last year if not two years ago. But it seems that Cook under invests in so much. ( His moto should be "Go Small" ) This is news because it Apple putting their work on a Samsung Device (I guess this is what ThermoNuclear in the Cook age looks like)

    I've decided that the existence of Alexa is good for Apple.   Alexa in homes keeps the Google Assistant out until Apple finally ships a decent Siri on a reasonable HomePod 
    (HomePod 2.0 will come in the next year and be smaller and cheaper.    Hopefully these TVs will be able to AirPlay to them).



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  • No, Apple's licensing of iTunes & AirPlay 2 isn't a 'strategy reversal' in any way

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    WSJ is DEaD. Long live DED.
    DED is slipping.    Normally when he goes on a rant you can count on him to provide an encyclopedia history of everything.

    He forgot or left out that Apple had done a deal for AirPlay on HTC phones years ago.

    https://appleinsider dot com/articles/16/04/12/apples-airplay-comes-to-android-in-new-flagship-htc-10

    williamlondon

  • No, Apple's licensing of iTunes & AirPlay 2 isn't a 'strategy reversal' in any way

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    nano said:
    It seems more like a confirmation that Apple is continuing to shift their strategy.  Apple is not likely to make a standalone TV now.  Yes, Apple Music was on android but further evidence that the shift is happening away from the walled-in strategy with their hardware. 

    On another note, having read Appleinsider for many years. Did WSJ do some sort of harm to AI?  The attacks and defensiveness of some recent AI articles is off-putting. 
    Yep this is a big shift.   I expect Apple TV puck to go the way of the AirPort router - no new versions until it can be safely killed off because Apple is on enough TVs in 3-4 years.    (Also Apple is playing catchup here.)
    williamlondon

  • No, Apple's licensing of iTunes & AirPlay 2 isn't a 'strategy reversal' in any way

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    rogifan_new said:
    Notsofast said:
    nano said:
    It seems more like a confirmation that Apple is continuing to shift their strategy.  Apple is not likely to make a standalone TV now.  Yes, Apple Music was on android but further evidence that the shift is happening away from the walled-in strategy with their hardware. 

    On another note, having read Appleinsider for many years. Did WSJ do some sort of harm to AI?  The attacks and defensiveness of some recent AI articles is off-putting. 
    There's no shift.  Apple never announced, nor likely ever intended, to make a standalone TV and compete in the low profit commoditized world of TV screens. Never made any sense.  There's nothing for Apple to offer, when they are all buying their screens from a couple of manufacturers and bundling them in their own package.  In contrast, Apple TV is a high margin, very differentiated product that enhances the Apple ecosystem for its customers.

    Are you referring to the Apple TV box? How is it a very differentiated product? It’s basically an overpriced TV streaming box. If it was everything you say why would Apple be offering AirPlay and iTunes on other people’s hardware? And everyone here talks about TVs as being low margin commodities but if Apple got in the TV set business tomorrow you’d all be singing a different tune explaining why it makes perfect sense.
    Yep.   DED is getting to be like those religious nuts that announce the day the world will end and Jesus returns to earth because they figured it out in the Bible.   Then when it doesn't happen they go back and give another reason for another date.   How many countless Anti-Samsung words have been written by DED and echoed by his many AI readers?    Now Apple is desperately playing catch up to other services like Amazon and Netflix that have been on these tv's for years.     This should have happened two years ago but everything get dragged out forever under Cook.
    avon b7rogifan_newsingularitywilliamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • The WSJ calling the iPhone XR a failure that 'can't sell' is ludicrously mistaken

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    Mike Wuerthele said:
    tbornot said:
    This probably should have been marked as an editorial.
    It is.


    brucemc said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    tbornot said:
    This probably should have been marked as an editorial.
    It is.


    It would seem that most trolls can't read and have a difficult time writing.  Yet believe their opinions should be taken very seriously...
    Its not labeled in the AppleInsider App and you probably don’t see “Editorial” if you access it from a push Notification.   But most know DED does Editorials not journalism news stories.
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