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Report: Apple To Suspend Effort To Develop Live TV Service (bloomberg.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the giving-up-for-now dept.

schwit1 sends word that Apple has reportedly suspended plans to offer a live internet-based television service and will focus on being a platform for media companies to sell directly to customers through its App Store instead. Bloomberg reports: "Apple Inc. has suspended plans to offer a live Internet-based television service and is instead focusing on being a platform for media companies to sell directly to customers through its App Store, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. While Apple isn't giving up entirely on releasing a live-TV service, its plan to sell a package of 14 or so channels for $30 to $40 a month has run into resistance from media companies that want more money for their programming, said the person, who asked not to be named discussing a prospective product."

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  1. Canceled TV service by BitZtream · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recently canceled my service because I was paying too much for cable ... and now you're telling me that APPLE doesn't want to charge enough?

    Shrug, congratulations media companies, you just lost to Netflix ... AGAIN.

    What the fuck will it take to get through your thick ass skulls that we are not going to continue paying for your shitty commercial laden bullcrap. From this point on, I will pay for service or I will watch 1 or 2 commercials per hour, and not if they are mixed into the middle of the show. And I'm not going to pay you some ridiculous sum of money for it. Probably less than a dollar per 'channel', no way in hell I'm giving you more than a dime a month per show I watch, you simply aren't worth it.

    So go ahead, try to sell people your spammy wares with little to no content at ridiculous prices. The sooner you die and stop bribing and manipulating to get your way, the sooner we can move on.

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  2. channels? live? what is his? 1970??? by citizenr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I watch what I want when I want it, not what/when live feed tells me to.

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  3. Re:More what for what? by MachineShedFred · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're making a huge assumption that those 14 channels are 1980's style cable channels, where you get no say in the programming. What if they added a tab to iTunes where you can drag and drop shows out of a pick list onto a "TV Guide" style grid of your 14 channels, including live sport events?

    That would sure as shit be worth $40/month for me, as long as the content I'm looking for is there.

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