yabos
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Re: Knowing Apple...
Uh huh and I'm saying they'd never discount a TV banking on people buying stuff from iTunes like the mobile carriers discount phones. |
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said by yabos  :Apple would never do that because there's no guarantee of any revenue from someone buying the TV. With cell phones you get discounted handsets because you're forced to subscribe for x number of years. There's a guarantee that the cell carriers will make the money back. With this TV if they discounted it then there'd be absolutely no guarantee of getting any money back. I said iPod not iPhone. |
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yabos
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Apple would never do that because there's no guarantee of any revenue from someone buying the TV. With cell phones you get discounted handsets because you're forced to subscribe for x number of years. There's a guarantee that the cell carriers will make the money back. With this TV if they discounted it then there'd be absolutely no guarantee of getting any money back. |
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while a little of this could be good, I think overall it is bad for the consumer... as it is, right now, there is a healthy supply of HD content, Verizon is offering over 100 HD channels and it won't be long before the cable companies catch up. My feeling is, internet video, fine for the internet but I say, except for an occasional exception, "get off my TV". The problem is, unlike previous providers, now you may have different companies with different approaches vying for your television and in the end, I can see, mix and match capatibility, rising costs or poorer packages for cable tv since, maybe, less will order it. NetTV (if you want to call it that) either being good, not so good or downright awful, companies changing their minds and leaving us in the lurch and cable tv providers not wanting to take another chance to offer what they do now case of our initial change of mind should it happen.
message to apple.. message to providers.. I want my triplay, I won't move away from cable, ok i might try this if I could afford the tv but I know a good thing when I see it. My thank you for fast internet, a grand choice of HD channels & reliable phone service for around $100; im signed on, this apple thing is just icing on the cake. |
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said by Dogfather :Possibly not. Apple can deeply discount the hardware banking on VOD revenues from iTunes. They *could*, but they don't. They can also discount the iPod, but they choose not to. |
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | reply to insomniac84
Same could be said for any feature in the TV, whether it's cablecard, ATSC tuner, etc. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | reply to Dogfather
This is dumb. An external box the provides any tv with these capabilities with a universal remote that controls both devices seamlessly would be really cheap and could actually gain a market if it was a good service. |
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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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I've purchased one from the store (mini). I purchased my c2d macbook from a local dealer, brand new in the box, for the same price as the store but with a 1gig stick of ram added in to seal the deal (1.25 total after I installed it).
All my other macs I purchased second hand. You find some great deals being a MUG member 
Oh, add 2 iPods from the store ...
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | reply to Titus Pullo
I get all my Macs from the Apple store...of course they're all refurbs because retail prices are a rip... |
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Titus Pullo
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Teh Apple store has already become an exercise in window shopping for most of us. I don't get this given the current economic environment, except that it was in the pipeline long enough not to pull. And there's always people with a lot more money than the rest of us who don't have a lot of money.
I'll wait and see what's what - just like with the new laptops coming next week.
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | reply to Jonbo298
Possibly not. Apple can deeply discount the hardware banking on VOD revenues from iTunes. |
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