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  • Apple allegedly keeping 'close eye' on possible sale of Time Warner, with streaming TV in mind

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    pmz said:
    Since the new AppleTV launched, after a multi-year delay, without the streaming media service that everyone thought the delay revolved around...I have no choice but to believe Apple failed to negotiate, or lost interest in negotiating, with the TV tyrants. 

    So, a major move like buying Time Warner, might be the way they are thinking. Obviously, such a move would lead to a streaming video service that works on all iOS devices, Macs, and AppleTV.
    And a streaming service that would have to be on Android, Roku, Fire TV, etc.
    stevie

  • Apple to reportedly exit ad business, hand over iAd management to publishers

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    foggyhill said:
    rogifan_old said:
    Ha, in 2010 Yahoo CEO predicted iAd would fail.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-idUSTRE68E42R20100916

    "That's going to fall apart for them," Bartz said about Apple's iAd service. "Advertisers are not going to have that type of control over them. Apple wants total control over those ads."
    Maybe if Yahoo's CEO's insight on his own company was as good they wouldn't be where they are....

    Like Sog said, the fact that you couldn't micro-target people with IAd made it less interesting to advertisers (and more interesting to phone buyers....).
    So, I think Apple made the right call anyway.
    So what happens now since iAd isn't going away? Are we the product in apps or Apple News publishers that use the iAd platform?
    cornchip

  • Apple to reportedly exit ad business, hand over iAd management to publishers

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    Ha, in 2010 Yahoo CEO predicted iAd would fail.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-idUSTRE68E42R20100916

    "That's going to fall apart for them," Bartz said about Apple's iAd service. "Advertisers are not going to have that type of control over them. Apple wants total control over those ads."
    anantksundaram1983cnocbui

  • Apple allegedly keeping 'close eye' on possible sale of Time Warner, with streaming TV in mind

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    nottylerdurden said:
    Ugh. You guys are ready to build a monster. If you want to own something that has the potential to lose money like nothing else a film/TV studio is the way to go. The enormous pressure put on anything they release after the buyout would almost surely be too great. The critics, press and competition would be rooting for apple to lose on this one. Take the amount of negotiations it takes to keep music artists happy and times that by 10 for TV and Movies.

    Time Warner is comprised of multiple arms that Apple either has no experience running or no business being a part of. Spreading into a entirely different industry or industries would only create a distraction to what Apples core, and highly profitable, business is. IMHO
    Agreed. If this was just buying, say, HBO I could maybe see it, though I still think it's a mistake for Apple to become content creators. But Apple owning movie studios, DC Comics and cable channels like CNN? Ok I'm sorry but that's nuts.
    singularity

  • Apple allegedly keeping 'close eye' on possible sale of Time Warner, with streaming TV in mind

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    sog35 said:
    CNBC spent about a minute on this story this morning. Jon Fortt thought it was an awful idea (and one that might require Bob Iger having to leave the board) and said if owning content ticket Sony would be ruling the streaming world right now.
    CNBC is full of idiots and Jon Fortt is one of them. The last thing CNBC wants is Apple to be a big player in TV.
    CNBC also had the former CFO of Pixar on who also dismissed it as a dumb idea. Just ask Steve Case. If owning content was the silver bullet Sony would be ruling this space right now. Going by your logic Apple should buy Visa or MasterCard too. Dumb dumb dumb.
    jackansi