Regards
Craig
On Oct 3, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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 isSorry, but I don't buy that crap.
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."
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."
