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Apple To Start Making TVs?

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-want-my-iTV dept.

timothy writes "Apple might want to sell you your next TV,' says this CNN report. Which makes a lot of sense, considering that Apple's razors-and-blades, vertical-marketplace model for iTunes (and the various iDevices) doesn't make as much sense with the world of TV, where your Sony, Samsung, or (egads!) Westinghouse set is just as happy with a Google TV box, or a Roku, or one of many other media devices, as it is with an Apple TV attached."

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  1. Re:But Microsoft can't bundle a browser?!?!?!?! by intheshelter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Music has NO DRM.

    Movies have DRM at the behest of the movie industry. Blame the movie industry

    iOS apps do not run on Android, Blackberry, Nokia, etc. Blackberry and Android apps don't run on iOS. Apple is NO different than anyone else, different platform different compatibilities.

    I don't see "classic vendor lock", I see "classic disingenuous hyperbole" from your inacurate comment.