Apple Television: The iPhone Model Or The iPad Model?

parislemon:

Based on one story from The Globe And Mail, there are a lot of interesting new thoughts about the supposed Apple Television today. The big question: will Apple partner with any of the cable companies for the product?

Based on everything we’ve seen in the space the past several years, I think they have to. The question is: will it be more like the initial iPhone partnerships (exclusive to one carrier in the U.S.) or the early iPad partnerships (multiple carrier options or the option to do no carrier at all)?

As I wrote back in April of last year:

The only real problem for Apple in getting into the game would be the cable companies’ monopolies on the local level. Unlike the carriers, which are nationwide, the cable companies dominate their regions and there’s often little competition (which is, of course, bullshit and the government are cowards for allowing this to continue). 

Let’s say Apple teamed up with one of the cable companies, like Comcast. They would likely have to do an exclusive deal with them to get them to bend to some of their demands (like getting rid of their shitty cable boxes in favor of a built-in Apple control guide). This is why Apple was exclusively with AT&T all that time. But not everyone can get Comcast. So the market would be limited. 

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Brooch. 1840, England. Made from sapphires and diamonds, this brooch was a wedding present from Prince Albert to Queen Victoria the day before their marriage. Victoria wrote about the present a gift from; “dearest Albert” of “a splendid brooch of, a large sapphire set with diamonds which is really quite beautiful.”

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Jan. 2, 1931: Albert Einstein and his wife, Elsa, pose for photographers at a press conference at Caltech in Pasadena. The image above at left was taken by a Los Angeles Times photographer. The one above at right was taken by a Los Angeles Daily News photographer.

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Pope Sylvester II and the Devil

Many young men traveled to Spain to get an education. One of these men was Gerbert d’Aurillac, who became the first French pope, Pope Sylvester II. He’s credited with reforming European education by emphasing the importance of rhetoric, logic and grammar in monastery schools. He introduced the Arabic numeral system to Europe, helped to standardize the use of the abacus, and revolutionized European astronomy with a gadget called the armillary sphere, or spherical astrolabe.

People accused Gerbert d’Aurillac of dark sorcery and cahooting with the Devil.

Rumor held that Gerbert won his papal office in a game of dice with Satan, fiddling contests having not yet been invented. Others believed he’d stolen his Muslim teacher’s spellbook, and then used it to evade the man’s pursuit. He was said to have built a mechanical head, which answered his yes-or-no questions, like a Magic 8-Ball for the 10^th century AD.

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