Apple’s real strategy
I’m glad to see at least somebody caught the importance of Apple’s Front Row announcement.
Matt haughey has a post called Moving towards becoming a Media Center? in pvr blog.
I’ve been waiting for this since 1990. That was the year Apple first showed me their secret set top box, based upon the Mac. They were gonna conquer the world, define convergence and ride the digital revolution into the sunset. At least that’s what Sculley had everyone saying.
Sculley would often talk about ‘particiapting in all stages of the food chain.’ Well here we are 15 years later, their iLife, iPod, iTunes and .Mac products define a new era digital lifestyle and they’ve finally come out with a product that does TV.
Significant? A bit late? Too early or just right?
Why don’t they just go buy TiVO? Steve Job’s ego. He’d never do that. It has to be home grown, NIH all the way.
And this product has already been compared to Microsoft’s Windows Media Center platform.
And as I’ve said before and may they bring it up in court proceedings, we’re gonna copy Apple as much as we can, and ‘borrow’ all those coolio, expensive, UI processs driven, easy to use standards they love to put out. We’re gonna let THEM do the R&D and market development this time around, and keep our products as good, if not better, than theirs.
Nobody takes a new market seriously until Apple dominates it. Just the battles between them and Microsoft will keep the press busy, chewing on all the fat their PR machines throw at them. And we’ll be uniting our distributed mesh based upon standards and leverage the Web 2.0 world.