Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'

[bloodline]

Agree. That's what I said. I thought.
Do you think Sony and affiliates will be very accommodating of the TV Side?
I don't. iTunes TV content tends to echo my thoughts. I can buy DVDs of TV series at Kmart in  Australia as recent as the bulk of the offerings on iTunes.

YouTube has the free video market covered. iTunes can only offer paid content and so they have to stand in the queue.

Sorry yes, I wasn't directing my rant at you... It just doesn't take much to set me off regarding this particular issue

[gertsy]

Sorry yes, I wasn't directing my rant at you... It just doesn't take much to set me off regarding this particular issue

I use Apple. And have done since Apple II. But the iPad 3 release has left me aghast. In relative terms & UX u get a camera flash on top of the iPad 2. The processor gains are gobbled by the ludicrous resolution.

How do you tell the difference between the resolution on an ipad2 & an iPad3. With a microscope! That's just ludicrous.

[bloodline]

I use Apple. And have done since Apple II. But the iPad 3 release has left me aghast. In relative terms & UX u get a camera flash on top of the iPad 2. The processor gains are gobbled by the ludicrous resolution.

How do you tell the difference between the resolution on an ipad2 & an iPad3. With a microscope! That's just ludicrous.

Any iPad2 will be less than a year old right now... I fully expect people to stil be using them in 2 years time... If I had one I would be rather happy my device wasn't obsoleted completely by the new iPad

[gertsy]

There is that. But I dread that Apple will repeat commodores mistakes with the Amiga. iPad had the opportunity to continue the revolution.  Apple turned it to "resolution"
I read that as "danger, marketing in control"
I hope not.

[jj]

Like who?

 
Any of the smaller dance type labels.
 
Hosptial records, spearhead, metalheadz to name a few

[bloodline]

There is that. But I dread that Apple will repeat commodores mistakes with the Amiga. iPad had the opportunity to continue the revolution.  Apple turned it to "resolution"
I read that as "danger, marketing in control"
I hope not.

If Apple were to follow the Commodore example they would still be pushing the AppleII as a viable product...

[runequester]

I absolutely do feel good about it. I already pay more than enough taxes for so called "social services" which I never use, lazy dole-mongers, bailouts for bankers and wars in foreign countries - none of which has anything to do with me as an individual. Don't see why I should have to pay for your multimedia BBC entertainment too.

I hear Somalia is nice this time of year

[Duce]

Online music and video distribution channels have helped the independent artists insanely.  Same goes for online books, apps, etc.  It's never been easier and more profitable for an artist to get his name out there, and even more important:  he's not filling the pockets of some corporate suit while he can barely pay his rent.

Standard cut on most online distribution schemes is 70% for artist, 30% for vendor.  You may find that as a "well, all Apple/Amazon/etc does is provide the download and the transaction server, they don't deserve that much!".
Look into what a major label takes from the artist.  You'd be shocked.  In the heyday of traditional physical media, it was not uncommon to see bands in the top 20 barely able to pay rent, while the music conglomerates drank vintage wine off the bands album sales.  

Ask anyone who was ever in the music industry can tell you how the labels screwed you in old media days, before it became an option for a guy singing cover songs while strumming a guitar to "release an album" via online vendors.  Online music stores have become a revolution for smaller artists - artists that otherwise wouldn't have stood a hope in hell of getting past the "mixtapes" and "check out my MySpace band page" phase.

2012 will be the first year that online sales will surpass hard copy DVD sales, a stated fact predicted by the industry.  It's a trend that is here to stay, and something old media are fighting tooth and nail to not give up.  Frankly, they have no options.  While some people live for physical copies for media, 95% of the rest of the world doesn't.  We want it quick and we want it now.  I can buy any album I like online now, and enjoying punk music, I can't generally just stroll into a record store and buy the latest UK Subs album.  I can online, and have said album here for $9.99 within 2 minutes, ready to listen to, and even preview tracks before I buy, or buy individual tracks.  As a guy who has well over 1000 vinyl records, it was hard to get used to for me.

As for being locked in to anything - don't buy DRM media products and it's no problem.  Everything I have on my Apple products is on my Android products.  I'm not locked down to anything.

[Iggy]

If Apple were to follow the Commodore example they would still be pushing the AppleII as a viable product...

If I remember correctly, Woz wanted to do just that.

[Bif]

If they were overpriced people wouldn't buy them... Something is only worth what people will pay for it, Apple sell plenty of devices at the pice points they choose.

As for lock in... Not sure how they are any different from any other company...

I'll give my most recent example of why I'll never buy an Apple product again due to Apple's anti-competitive practices.

I installed Dell Voice (a VOIP app that gives you a number to receive calls with) on my wife's iPhone and registered an account/number for her via the app. This app is available for iOS, Android, your PC, and whatever else they care to come out with it on. However, when I later went to sign her in on her Android tablet it came up with a message of "due to an agreement with Apple you cannot use a Dell Voice account on an Android device that was registered from an iPhone".

The sad thing is I wasn't at all surprised by this, that's just the typical monopolistic anti-competitive lock in style that Apple pushes. I remember at first you couldn't even get VOIP apps for the iPhone for anti-competitive reasons, so it doesn't surprise me they are still trying to control it anyway they can.

Without realizing this restriction existed, I registered my own Dell Voice account/number from the PC app first. No problems using it on my new droid phone here. Lucky me I guess.

Anyway, don't get me started on the emulators, etc ...

[Methuselas]

@ Matt & JJ,

You guys have to pay a license fee for BBC TV and Radio? *THAT* is F*CKED UP!!!!!

And Matt is right and SPOT ON about the Record Companies screwing artists. Their big thing now is stating that it cost so much to produce albums and what not, but I can tell you, as I worked for a CD replication facility in Texas, it doesn't cost them sh!t to make those CDs and being someone that's done graphic design work for albums, typically you're paid by the *ARTIST* for said work, not the *COMPANY*.

And trust me, you don't get paid jack, either, 'cos they aren't. Only bands, like Metallicops make money off their CD sales and let's remember that Lars is still paying off his gold plated dolphin pool (someone will get this.....) That's why bands like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead dropped their parent companies. Hell, Trent Reznor all but abandoned Nothing Records. How many artists are still under that company?

Fact is, the entertainment industry is criminal, to say the least and they're in their final death throes, yet are fighting tooth and nail to prevent it, but refuse to change or compromise. They just keep churning out crappy, bubblegum pop and fire bands that didn't do as well as expected, plus massive layoffs of company employees to keep their figures in the "black" where they want them.

Most entertainment companies read from Medhi Ali's private journals, so it seems.

[amiga4ever]

+1

Pay for what you use...

Thought I made it perfectly clear that I'm not a consumer of BBC tripe. Seems those wonderful BBC edumakation broadcasts have neglected to include a series on comprehension.

Sparky: Not even going to consider the clearly ill-conceived opinion of a foreigner on the issue of English taxation - old chap.

Runequester: See above.

[Methuselas]

Who the hell is Sparky?

[amiga4ever]

Who the hell is Sparky?

Couldn't have put it better myself. Well done.

[kedawa]

You guys have to pay a license fee for BBC TV and Radio? *THAT* is F*CKED UP!!!!!

It is, but it's obviously pretty easy to avoid, or so I've been told by my uncle who has never paid it, despite having lived his entire life in England.

[Methuselas]

Couldn't have put it better myself. Well done.

You *DO* realize that my comments were directed towards Bloodline and JJ, two people I've known for years and consider friends?