“In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he’d figured out a way to revolutionize TV,” Walt Mossberg writes for Recode. “He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later and that meeting never came to pass.”
“Not long after, in his authorized biography of Jobs, the author Walter Isaacson quoted him as saying he thought he had ‘cracked’ the problem of TV,” Mossberg writes. “More than five years have passed, and while Apple and its rivals have enabled TV viewing on a huge number of mobile devices, nobody has fully and truly revolutionized traditional TV.”
“A huge number of households in the U.S. — over 90 million — are still stubbornly sticking to buying big bundles of mostly unwatched networks, with shows primarily presented in linear fashion and interrupted by interstitial ads, even if they also use the newer devices and services,” Mossberg writes. “Their numbers are declining, but not yet collapsing. For these viewers, it might as well be 20 years ago.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ooh, that Caavo sounds very interesting – for the time being, while we wait, seemingly forever.
Content is king. Obviously.
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The problem may be as simple as there is no Steve Jobs persuasive figure to negotiate content deals anymore and Eddie Cue isn’t it. Even on stage he seems like the drunken uncle you see lounging about in a bar whiling away the hours in a stupor.
Apple really needs to hire a top negotiator and kick Eddie to the curb.
“Interstitial.
Trying to figure out when and where to use that word which is new to me.
I distilled its meaning used in several disciplines and made a general definition that may cover them all: Spaces, usually small, between nearby things. One definition cited teeth or biological cells. I cite parked cars, paintings on a wall, files on my iMac’s desktop, and Tim’s releases of products.
Apple needs to buy Caavo today. They are way ahead of the ball on their approach to the media consumption problem. I could see an AppleTV Pro based on Caavo.
Aanother loser company Apple should buy?
Caavo appears to have a corner on ‘It Just Works.’ Good catch Dasgeek.
http://www.caavo.com
“A huge number of households in the U.S. … are still stubbornly sticking to buying big bundles of mostly unwatched networks”
Because it’s VERY, VERY EASY and they already understand it. Until something else is just as easy, most of those people are not going to shift.
Why cable TV is not collapsing: The cable companies are manipulating their customers by DEMANDING that they get cable TV if they want a price break on their Internet service. That is exactly the trickery pulled on me by Time Warner Cable/Charter/Spectrum. The resulting price was still a gouge job, the scum. AND their Internet service is awful.