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Saturday, January 22, 2005
Cringely on the Mac Mini as personal video iPod - we talked about this a week or so back.
He makes the jumps to Mac Mini + iFlicks as the integrated digital distribution end of video, just like iTunes and iPod - something that's been discussed a lil bit before, but never put in the context of Jobs as movie industry players, which Cringely talks about. This is brilliant stuff and I think it's right on.
In fact, just like iTunes is where Apple really stands to capture massive long-term value, iFlicks + iTunes may position Apple as the digital media distribution monopolist (I am assuming that players will become rapidly commoditized, as is already happening).
Comments:
Looks like he was right. Did a google on iFlix and it's already an Apple download: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/iflix.html
Your original takes on digital music and Apple, sort of dissed their lack of licensing Fairplay. To put it simply I think you disagreed with their strategy to eschew becoming a platform leader in favor of becoming a "monopoly purchaser" of music from the labels. Is that still your take? You don't sound too negative describing Apple as a "digital media distribution monopolist" in this post. Thanks! Alex in Los Angeles
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