I would rather just see comments from users I like reading first. Not necessarily that I agree with, just that I think make good points, are funny, or whatever. That's what I'm trying to do at commentous.com
"Likewise, I very much doubt that a gamer is getting an iphone just so that they can play all of the latest iphone games."
I think it's much more about creating a new market that didn't exist before, kind of like the WII did, but larger: My wife goes out on the porch every night these days and has one smoke or a glass of something while playing iPhone games for an hour.
She doesn't play any other games on the Wii or her computer. In fact she's never played any games at all.
Amen to that. You hit it right on the nail and previous posts are missing the point:
1) Hook it up 2) View your iTunes content in your living room.
Simple, which means it actually works for the 99% of consumers that are not geeks and don't even know what/. is.
It also brings about a whole new way of consuming content (like iPod did): Soon the value proposition for consumers will be "why pay $90/month for cable when I can just subscribe to the entire seasons of the 3 shows I watch for that much?"
This is not just a great product, it is much more important than iPhone, and has a great chance of cementing Apple's media dominance quickly ( 2 years).
You may be right about Mac OS Rumors, but Apple does stand to gain a lot from this if it turns out to be true.
It's not about peer to peer for all, or about cheaper software updates. It's about video.
Apple wants to put a Mac Mini in your living room, so you can use your apple remote to pick content on demand on FrontRow and play it right on your tv. Right now this is only possible with music and small 20 or 40 minute shows. And it is not exacly on demand (you'll have to wait 10 minutes for your 20 minute show to download).
Peer to peer gives Apple a way to deliver 2 hour movies and smaller shows at A) drastically reduced infrastructure costs and B) near real-time (peers inside your isp's network can deliver bits of content much faster through fewer hops, and content can be obtained from several peers at the same time).
So why build it into the OS and not iTunes? iTunes was a driver for iPod sales, and it was important to support the large Windows user base. But video delivery to the living room is an Apple-only deal: they must control CPU, remote, Airport Express, etc. and make them all work together (oh yeah, and they get to sell more Macs).
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I would rather just see comments from users I like reading first. Not necessarily that I agree with, just that I think make good points, are funny, or whatever. That's what I'm trying to do at commentous.com
"Likewise, I very much doubt that a gamer is getting an iphone just so that they can play all of the latest iphone games."
I think it's much more about creating a new market that didn't exist before, kind of like the WII did, but larger: My wife goes out on the porch every night these days and has one smoke or a glass of something while playing iPhone games for an hour.
She doesn't play any other games on the Wii or her computer. In fact she's never played any games at all.
Amen to that. You hit it right on the nail and previous posts are missing the point:
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1) Hook it up
2) View your iTunes content in your living room.
Simple, which means it actually works for the 99% of consumers that are not geeks and don't even know what
It also brings about a whole new way of consuming content (like iPod did): Soon the value proposition for consumers will be "why pay $90/month for cable when I can just subscribe to the entire seasons of the 3 shows I watch for that much?"
This is not just a great product, it is much more important than iPhone, and has a great chance of cementing Apple's media dominance quickly ( 2 years).
You may be right about Mac OS Rumors, but Apple does stand to gain a lot from this if it turns out to be true.
It's not about peer to peer for all, or about cheaper software updates. It's about video.
Apple wants to put a Mac Mini in your living room, so you can use your apple remote to pick content on demand on FrontRow and play it right on your tv. Right now this is only possible with music and small 20 or 40 minute shows. And it is not exacly on demand (you'll have to wait 10 minutes for your 20 minute show to download).
Peer to peer gives Apple a way to deliver 2 hour movies and smaller shows at A) drastically reduced infrastructure costs and B) near real-time (peers inside your isp's network can deliver bits of content much faster through fewer hops, and content can be obtained from several peers at the same time).
So why build it into the OS and not iTunes? iTunes was a driver for iPod sales, and it was important to support the large Windows user base. But video delivery to the living room is an Apple-only deal: they must control CPU, remote, Airport Express, etc. and make them all work together (oh yeah, and they get to sell more Macs).
you can use forwardportal.com to forward your number.
It's fairly new, i think, but some of my friends have listed in it.
(thought I'd put this again at the top)
In the meantime you can use forwardportal.com
It's fairly new, i think, but some of my friends listed when they changed their number.
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