I think Apple still has some upside. Whilst I personally don't like there digital handcuffs the great unwashed majority are happy for Apple to do all their thinking for them. I am quite surprised they haven't nailed the TV integration experience yet but it can't be too long before they have an iOS powered Apple TV (with apps) and seamless, wireless integration with iPad and iPhone. That is where I see the next growth part for Apple. Google/Android has also botched the TV so far and they don't do integration as well as Apple so competition will be minimal initially.
I don't think Internet TV will be it . It might be in the US, but connectivity in most other countries rich enough to potentially sustain the preference is relatively poor.
Even in the US it is in doubt, given how their ISPs are introducing download quotas.
If the market became sophisticated enough that ISPs struck deals for unmetered traffic with content providers, the market would likely go through a period of horrible fragmentation.
FWIW, IMHO I would expect Google's effort to have a small advantage because of ownership of YouTube.
+Bryan Murphy+Terrence Miao+Alex Megremis oh please don't let Apple control the TV media!!! The pain I had to endure just to watch a 90 second Star Trek movie trailer on the Apple website on my Ubuntu computer was a disgrace. If it weren't because it was /star trek/ I would have given up (it took me 45 minutes to get it running).
If the movie trailer had been on YouTube I would have had no problems viewing it.
And why on earth they prevent you from downloading your own copy of the trailer, so you can watch it when/however you want is ludicrous. Surely the point of a movie trailer is to get many people to see it and motivate them to see the movie at the cinema! Sharing should be encouraged!!
In the meantime, it will only ever truly be over for them, IMHO, if they lose Jony Ive. While he's there, sexy stuff will keep on coming out.
Even in the US it is in doubt, given how their ISPs are introducing download quotas.
If the market became sophisticated enough that ISPs struck deals for unmetered traffic with content providers, the market would likely go through a period of horrible fragmentation.
FWIW, IMHO I would expect Google's effort to have a small advantage because of ownership of YouTube.
If the movie trailer had been on YouTube I would have had no problems viewing it.
And why on earth they prevent you from downloading your own copy of the trailer, so you can watch it when/however you want is ludicrous. Surely the point of a movie trailer is to get many people to see it and motivate them to see the movie at the cinema! Sharing should be encouraged!!