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The article misses the boat. Only Apple can kill off Apple. If they have another amazing innovation in the pipeline that can bouy the brand, then Apple will be fine. If the iPad was their last innovation, people will drift towards innovators and price leaders.
I hear that Apple is working with cable providers on a set top box. If this is truly amazing and linked to the Apple store and leverages existing apple products, then, well, that MIGHT be interesting.
We get our TV over the air (OTA). The image quality is amazing, but the hardware and software to support this are not. If someone were to combine internet TV and OTA in a way that was amazing and inexpensive, they would have special.
Right now, I use a two tuner DTVPal to tune my channels and record OTA. I have an SMP-N200 for netflix and other internet content plus a disk for divitized content (my DVDs). It's pretty good, except that I have to manage a fleet of remote controls and change input when I want to get my entertainment from one source or another. Worse, Netflix does not support playlists, so I have to do something at the end of each movie.
Channelmaster has improved this a little with a DTVPal that has some internet content. Even that is inelegant.
Maybe Apple will put a box on my set that is like TIVO plus Siri? That would be amazing and my iPhone (I don't have one yet) could be a remote control and serve up media to it or let me watch the end of a movie outside the home.
Just sayin...
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