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Apple TV to be a Centrally Controlled P2P Network?
Rolgar writes "PBS' Bob Cringely theorizes that since the Apple TV will be an always-on device with a 40GB hard drive, Apple may move to content distribution via a P2P network. The ISPs will incur higher bandwidth locally, possibly lose some subscribers to cable TV, but have fewer costs through the Tier II Internet backbone providers. Bob also expects that Google will be involved with their fiber network and advertising expertise, and my hope is that they'll bundle in YouTube content as well. The article suspects that they won't get around to announcing the full details of this plan until they hit a half million units or more, and that this Apple and Google pairing will become the equivalent of a cable TV provider with almost none of the infrastructure costs. Eventually, he hopes, we'll see a real HD revolution from Apple and Google for this service." If Apple rolled something like this out to the service, would you bite on it? What would it take you to move to this over Tivo or MythTV?
Would you lick my sweaty huevos?
Apple sucks.
Blah blah blah.
DRM.
No divX.
Small HD.
Steve Jobs sucks!
Microsoft sucks!
MythTV is so much better but there is no way in hell I will set it up for someone who I will tell not to buy this. Instead I will just laugh at them for being a sucker while I watch Xena reruns I downloaded and uber spliced into 1081i HD!
It appears from your statement that you will then only accept free content. So, end-user created videos on youtube?
Or are you talking about movies, tv shows and other "unapproved" content that people are distributing for free?
Big differnence - just ask the content owners.
I would subscribe to something like this if the company doing it was any other company by apple. fsck apple. its an evil corporation that not only controls your operating system, but it also controls the computer you can run it on. You basically give all your money to Apple for their crappy products since their computers are about 8 times more than a regular pc. And you can run like 2 applications on it, Ms Office and Internet Explorer 5 (or was it 4?). fsck apple.