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Should Apple Buy TiVo?
st. jude writes "In a story over at Business 2.0, John Battelle says yes. As the man who made music downloading legit, maybe His Steveness can conquer Hollywood's loathing of the PVR next. As a lover of both my TiVo and my Mac, the thought makes this dreamer drool ... TiVo + Mac = iTV ... two great tastes that taste great together? Or just another version of a long-rumored geek fantasy that's as silly as the iWalk?" Although, if it means per-show payments, I'll pass.
How long TiVO's would be running Linux under the hood if Apple did annex TiVO. Personally, im all for it.
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OTH, they have lasted this long because they provide all these things in one box in an easy to use form factor. Hallmarks of Apple. But I don't think the Steve's golden touch can help TiVo.. it's on the way out unless they can find a new buisness model. Sorry.
Now that they also have the nifty music store thingy set up it probably wouldn't be that hard to add videos of all kinds to their offerings. (Although they would have to change the name away from 'music store').
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From the article: Mystro TV decides which programs can be recorded and whether ads can be skipped.
I'm trying to picture them asking advertisers if it's ok to allow viewers to skip their ads. "Oh, sure" they'll say "we don't mind if they skip this ad we paid a megabuck for"
That's not likely to happen. So basically, every ad will be skip-protected and this device will actually be worse than an old fashioned VCR.
There's one very good reason why this will not happen. Apple, now more than ever, needs to convince major record labels that he is on the side of protecting intellectual property. The labels' biggest fear is losing control over their vast libraries as part of a distribution agreement. Jobs won't do anything that casts even a shred of doubt over his role as one of the good guys.
...no pun intended.
What some people are missing is that Jobs dislikes TV quite a bit. He's gone on record saying that he doesn't see TV as a part of the "Digital Hub" strategy, as it is a passive medium. With music, you can bring it anywhere with you. With television, you're prettymuch resigned to sitting on the sofa and letting the cool rays wash over you. Apple has always promoted a "lifestyle". This "lifestyle" is active, smart and creative. It involves doing things, *making* videos, *making* music, not "just sitting there".
I don't think he'd [Jobs] go for buying TiVo. It isn't part of "The Grande Vision"
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Woh...hold the phone. Let's not call the iTunes music service a success just yet. While I am a huge fan already and it has definately won me over, let's not forget that us over zealous mac fans are just a very small portion of the market. When I tell my non mac friends about the store I have difficulty convincing them of its advantages...
And let's not forget about Apple's recent troubles porting their iTunes software to windows. This battle is far from over in terms of winning the rest of the market over. Some of the record labels are viewing the Mac situation as a small market test, as I believe Jobs sold it to them. They are unsure it should be moved to the windows platform so soon.
So as for purchasing TiVo... I am all for it, in the long run. My point is simply that we should be more careful with terms like "conquer." The iTunes music store is far from conquering anything... and with their recent removal of radiohead from the database...i think they are one step further at that.
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holy fuck you are a retard, either that or you have the comprehension skills of a seven year old. seriously, slow down, re-read and try to understand. it will help you out in life, i promise!