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I think that this may be more about gaining leverage in pushing content to iTunes. Steve Jobs is now the single largest Disney shareholder. That gives him a LOT of swing in the company. Disney also owns ABC, if I'm not mistaken. Now, if Jobs says to the board that he wants all of Disney's movies and all of ABC's shows on iTunes, he's got a lot of pull. While he might have been able to convince them before when he didn't own a huge chunk of Disney, now that he does own a hefty chunk of the company any such move is almost certain to succeed.
Interesting idea and commentary, grasshopper. However, one would be wise to think bigger than this.
15 years ago, had this occured, and people had been talking about increased Mac usage in the Disney back office, it would be more important to think of Jobs' bigger goal: control of Disney.
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We play games to escape.' Microsoft's strategy is 'absolutely flawed,' he added.""
This is absolutely, positively, 100% off the mark. Seems insightful, but ultimately isn't.
Microsoft can drop hundreds of millions of dollars into the live component, and they don't care for the XBox 360 if there is a return on investment. For Microsoft, the return on investment comes about when there is no PS4. They are buying future market share, plain and simple.
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They could perhaps just remove ActiveX entirely, insecure as it has proven to be.
Yes, it's called.NET.
This conversation makes me forget which year it is...it's 2001, right?
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I think that this may be more about gaining leverage in pushing content to iTunes. Steve Jobs is now the single largest Disney shareholder. That gives him a LOT of swing in the company. Disney also owns ABC, if I'm not mistaken. Now, if Jobs says to the board that he wants all of Disney's movies and all of ABC's shows on iTunes, he's got a lot of pull. While he might have been able to convince them before when he didn't own a huge chunk of Disney, now that he does own a hefty chunk of the company any such move is almost certain to succeed.
Interesting idea and commentary, grasshopper. However, one would be wise to think bigger than this.
15 years ago, had this occured, and people had been talking about increased Mac usage in the Disney back office, it would be more important to think of Jobs' bigger goal: control of Disney.
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I think I will go test this out on my parents...
>>> We play games to escape.' Microsoft's strategy is 'absolutely flawed,' he added.""
This is absolutely, positively, 100% off the mark. Seems insightful, but ultimately isn't.
Microsoft can drop hundreds of millions of dollars into the live component, and they don't care for the XBox 360 if there is a return on investment. For Microsoft, the return on investment comes about when there is no PS4. They are buying future market share, plain and simple.
>>> They could perhaps just remove ActiveX entirely, insecure as it has proven to be. Yes, it's called .NET.
This conversation makes me forget which year it is...it's 2001, right?