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And while we’re on the subject of Apple…
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And while we’re spending out summer Friday preoccupied with rumors, why not take a look at the latest “news” on the much-anticipated and likely still-unavailable Apple TV.
ZDNet reports that Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves held a recent meeting with senior Apple execs who gave him disappointing news about the possibility of a big-screen brother for the iPad.
“Relative to the television market,” the Hargreaves says, “Eddy Cue, Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services, reiterated the company’s mantra that it will enter markets where it feels it can create great customer experiences and address key problems. The key problems in the television market are the poor quality of the user interface and the forced bundling of pay TV content, in our view”.
Hargreaves added that Cue feels that this would be an “incomplete solution from Apple’s perspective unless it could deliver content in a way that is different from the current multichannel pay TV model” and he adds that “the differences in regional broadcast content and the lack of scale internationally also create significant hurdles that do not seem possible to cross at this point”.
