[opendtv] Re: Amazon to ban sales of Apple TV, Google Chromecast to boost Prime Video
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:58:49 -0400
Craig wrote:
Apple is not shutting down Amazon. They never have.
But they didn't, for example, support Netflix at first. Or cbs.com for the
longest time (years).
Do you really not get what I'm saying, Craig? I'm saying that Amazon is playing
exactly the same shut-in-your-ecosystem game that Apple plays all the time.
When Apple is on the receiving end, you seem to object. When Apple is the
perpetrator, you think it's just a good "business model."
Inconsistency hurts your credibility, Craig.
BTW, because Microsoft now builds the same OS for handheld devices and for PCs
(Windows 10), I can get all the same "apps" for my PC as can, for example,
Windows Phone. So yesterday, I saw an ad for the CBS "app" at cbs.com. I
downloaded the CBS app and the CBS News app, just to see how they differed from
the regular browser version of cbs.com.
Turns out that they look very similar, but what is offered is a little
different. The CBS app only allows next day viewing of full length episodes if
you're subscribed to CBS All Access. Cbs.com allows next day viewing for all
episodes, free. But on the other hand, cbs.com does not allow access to a lot
of the library material, or to older episodes of current series, unless you
subscribe to CBS All Access. While the CBS app makes the older episodes free,
and also some of the library material.
Microsoft has the right idea. Make access to material device-neutral. That's
the way it's historically been in radio and TV, and then later also over the
Internet. That's the way it needs to remain. Equipment vendors should serve
their customers, i.e. the consumers, first. Not last. That's why they're called
CE companies. The C does not mean "collusion." It means "consumer."
Bert
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