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Just watching Steve Jobs latest unveiling. The new iMac is
- thinner,
- has the iSight camera built in (so nothing to do for Video Conferencing) and
- provides a media center experience complete with remote.
Wow!
Update: The media is jumping all over the video iPod. To me the interesting thing about that is that music video’s come on line. As broadband grows that will just get better and better.
To me the real interest in the latest SJ show is where they’ve taken the iMac. Adding the ‘across the lounge experience’ in a very slick package takes the iMac right into consumer territory. It has to be the dorm room machine of choice.
So I then thought, how long until we see a PVR? But when you think through what Apple has done they have been smarter than that. As you can download TV shows from iTunes the next day at $1.99 per episode this intermediate step through iTunes provides a business model where the content provider and Apple clip the ticket and dis-intermediate the networks.
Apple executes and changes the rules again!
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