More Vague Hints Of Clues About That Rumored Apple Television →
The smoke around the Apple Television continues to billow, ever-thicker. But this latest report by Jessica Vascellaro and Sam Schechner for The Wall Street Journal sure makes it seem as if things are still in the fairly early stages. It sounds like Apple is putting a lot of options out there in their talks with the media companies to see what sticks.
If that’s correct, I say there’s no way we see an Apple Television until mid-2013 at the earliest. But perhaps Apple is farther along and is just holding their cards really close to the vest (likely knowing that the media industry is just about the worst when it comes to the leaking of information).
But despite years of skepticism by many, I continue to believe this is happening. You don’t have to look past this paragraph in the WSJ piece to realize why:
The pace of change puts media companies that make TV shows and program TV channels in a dilemma. On one hand, they hope that they can increase their profits by selling new services on new devices. But they are worried that a proliferation of new services could undermine the existing TV business, which brings in more than $150 billion a year in the U.S. in advertising and consumer spending on monthly TV subscriptions from cable, satellite and telecommunications companies.
They’re throttling innovation so as not to disturb their current cash cows. That’s not a winning strategy, it’s a losing one. And someone is going to come along and hand their asses to them eventually. It may be Apple, or it may be someone who can do it sooner.
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Fran Drescher, star of The Nanny, claims she and her gay ex-husband were kidnapped by aliens. And probed. And had a microchip implanted.
Fran Drescher, star of The Nanny, claims she and her gay ex-husband were kidnapped by aliens. And probed. And had a microchip implanted.
Fran Drescher, star of The Nanny, claims she and her gay ex-husband were kidnapped by aliens. And probed. And had a microchip implanted.
Fran Drescher, star of The Nanny, claims she and her gay ex-husband were kidnapped by aliens. And probed. And had a microchip implanted.
Fran Drescher, star of The Nanny, claims she and her gay ex-husband were kidnapped by aliens. And probed. And had a microchip implanted.
Rainbow connection.
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He had the most marvellous voice. He could have been a great singer if he hadn’t been completely unmusical and tone deaf. This voice was like a barrel organ. It was mellifluous. He would be interested in you and this voice would wrap you round. It had a kind of caressing quality. I think women fell like ninepins. He had a curious animal magnetism. He wasn’t handsome – you wouldn’t rush towards him because he was so beautiful or alluring. But there was a profound animal magnetism. It was like being in the presence of a temporarily tame tiger.
Brigid Marlin, ‘A temporarily tame tiger’: Brigid Marlin on J.G. Ballard, Paul Delvaux and surrealist art
EPITAPH An Italian police diver inspects the hull of the partially submerged Costa Concordia on Thursday. Officials are continuing the search for 21 missing passengers and crew; the death toll stands at 11 as reports reveal the captain, Francesco Schettino, waited 73 minutes to sound the evacuation alarm after the ship struck underwater rocks. (Photo: EPA via the Wall Street Journal)
