“Will Apple’s rumored iTV challenge Google’s YouTube with a built-in video sharing service of its own? It’s likely, says Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek, who can be counted as a contributor to the ever-churning Apple rumor mill,” Nathan Olivarez-Giles reports for The Los Angeles Times.
“On Monday, Misek said in a note to investors that the iTV, whenever it arrives (if it arrives — Apple hasn’t confirmed such a device is on the way), will offer a “YouTube-like” feature that will enable users to easily share video online that they’ve produced on iPhones and iPads,” Olivarez-Giles reports. “Distribution of such video content will become a major focus for Apple, the report says. Apple is currently one of the leading sellers of online music, movies and TV shows through its iTunes digital storefronts.”
Olivarez-Giles reports, “TV-industry sources with knowledge of Apple’s plans told The Times that a television from Apple could arrive as early as June.”
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Challenging YouTube would be about as difficult as challenging Coca-Cola.
Challenging IBM would be as difficult as……oh wait, hello Apple.
Challenging Yahoo would be as difficult as…….oh wait, hello Google.
Challenging MySpace would be as difficult as…….oh wait, hello Facebook.
People like you are why America is stumbling. That god Jobs/Page/Zuckerberg don’t think like you.
I hope it doesn’t use flash.
‘I hope it doesn’t use flash.’
Is that a trick question? Deary, deary me.
(Shakes head, rolls eyes)
I would really prefer a Tivo-like feature
How about ‘a la cart’ networks with on demand video?
Who needs a TiVo like feature to record live TV when everything can be streamed?
The big feature for regular tv viewers will be its ability to aggregated shows not channels, instead of listing of hundreds of channels with the same show you will see just what is on, how the choose who you watch I am guessing is by who pays Apple the most.
here’s the model:
Apple sells the hardware to consumers…
Consumers a la carte their selection at the $1 model for 22 min. show / $2 for 44 minute show / $3 for movie / $4 or $5 for newly released. Apple gets 1/3, carrier (dumb pipe) gets 1/3, content license-holder gets 1/3.
EVERY CUSTOMER GETS A CHOICE – EVERY DELIVERY AGENT gets a piece of the pie; no losers.
AppleTV already comes with Vimeo and Vimeo is 1000 times better than YouTube because you actually get content you want to see. Apple expanding their partnership with Vimeo would be me more likely than Apple making their own video sharing site.
These “one-off” features are NOT going to make Apple TV into a killer product. The current Apple TV is somewhat successful, but it’s not a product that disrupts and takes over a market (like iPad and iPhone). The current Apple TV is just a collection of such features, and Apple calls it a “hobby.”
This media-named “iTV” will be much more than a collection of features created and operated by Apple.
After Steve Jobs came back to Apple, he positioned the first new product under his watch, the iMac, as the better way to access the Internet. Apple did not create a whole new Internet for use by Macs. Macs access the same Internet, through the same networks, to provide users with a better experience.
In 2007, when Apple released iPhone, Apple did not create a whole new wireless network for use by iPhone. iPhone accessed existing wireless carrier networks around the world. iPhone gave mobile phone users a better way to access their existing wireless services.
I think that’s what iTV will do… follow that formula. Apple will not create and run new TV services for iTV, to match existing TV services. iTV will give TV customers exactly what they already have today (such as cable), but provide a significantly better way to access those existing services. (And on top of that, Apple will provide access to services that it does control, which is the function of the current Apple TV.)
TiVo (while never a huge commercial success) became quite popular about a decade ago. It gave customer exactly what they already had, but with significant new benefits of being able to automatically and intuitively record programming (without tapes) and do “time shifting” of live programming. I’m not saying iTV will have DVR features (that’s not my point). But that’s the path I think iTV will take, except on a much broader scale. It will take the today’s existing “TV experience” and make it significantly better.
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