[opendtv] Re: News: Apple's television could offer superior picture quality with advanced backlighting
- From: "Albert Manfredi" <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:56:40 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
And they [Apple] have been able to use their perceived leadership in this
area to break up the oligopolies that have operated REALLY CLOSED
SYSTEMS for decades. First music then mobile telephony - one wonders
if Bert remembers when the telcos wanted to sell subscriptions to FloTV
and control EVERY APP on a handset?
One wonders how it is that Craig doesn't see Apple attempting to do the very
same thing. One wonders why it is that when TV networks want to decide what
pipes get to distribute their content, this is bad, but when Apple wants to
control content distribution, hardware, interfaces, and software, this is
good.
But the most important issue here is that the traditional CE vendors
have catered to the media and cable oligopolies who control the
really important bits...the content. As long as a TV is just a dumb
terminal/display for a cable or DBS box with a port fro a DVD player,
the traditional CE vendors are doomed to a business model where
there is a mad scramble to the bottom for market share.
Who says CE vendors should collude with content owners or with
by-subscription distribution pipes? That's exactly what I object to. And the
best you can do is offer up a company that does this and a whole lot more,
as an example of virtue. Amazing.
CE vendors, when operating in the US, should at least try to be as
independent as they appear to successfully be in Europe. There's no reason
that a TV vendor should try to sucker its customers into a closed ecosystem,
to be successful. Why don't they instead work on offering useful, flexible,
unique platforms, which can access the numerous portals already out there,
with clever and intuitive GUIs of their own creation? Why should they all
flock to a solution, like Google TV for instance, just to make it easy for
content owners to shut them out?
The Apple ecosystem is "less closed" than many of the current
content ecosystems:
That sounds lamely defensive. If a single company wants to control every
aspect of the viewing experience, as I described above, from content to all
the hardware and software, pointing to MVPDs and saying "they're bad too" is
hardly a credible defense.
Craig seems unable to reach any semblance of objectivity in this topic. My
position is consistently opposed to walled gardens. Yes, even closed off
game consoles. Craig seems unable to perceive a world in which one can
function without walled gardens.
Bert
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