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The hundred gadget giveaway: round 6 {Engadget}
Sep 5th 2007 9:29AM letmewinplz
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 6 {Engadget}
Sep 5th 2007 9:26AM let.me.win.plz
The hundred gadget giveaway: round 2 {Engadget}
Sep 4th 2007 8:36AM Thanks for doing such a nice blog on such a nice subject, keep it up Engadget :)
NBC hits back at Apple, claims it didn't want more money {Engadget}
Sep 2nd 2007 9:15AM They probably make a lot more on each episode of a popular show the old way. Imagine evey time this episode airs, they get to sell a lot of commercial time (where I live (The Netherlands), this can be as much as a third of the total broadcast time). Episodes also air multiple times each week when they're new, and after that some shows are repeated a few times. This means the money they make on one episode's advertisement space sales is huge. And then they get to sell the shows abroad, imagine how much they get from the European stations.
I think they make a lot more money on all these things than on purchases from iTunes, which is why they don't really want to sell much of their shows there. Unless we pay 5$ for each show, which is what they want.
iTunes is too convenient for users, because they get the content they want very soon after it is broadcast on TV, they get it ad-free and they get to watch it for ever and ever, as much as they please. This is great for us, but not for the companies that make these shows, who rely on all the sources of income I mentioned above. These shows are expensive as hell, andthey will want to make profit with them.
I think iTunes and the user-centric approach is best, and think the content companies should make an effort to cut cost elsewhere, and not try to charge us more money.
Apple cancels NBC shows on iTunes with near-immediate effect {Engadget}
Sep 1st 2007 10:27AM I'm wondering, what is it about digital music/movies/TV series sales that the content poviders are so affraid of? Maybe they don't really want us to OWN anything, but rather let us view it and 'pay' for it by being forced to watch to commercials? Content providers seem to love commercials, they take any chance they get to screw up the users viewing experience with boring and pathetic commercials. They must make a lot of money on commercials right? So re-runs of older series are still worth money, as they allow for more commercials before, after and in between the actual episode. If people can easily buy and keep digital content, without commercials, they won't look at any medium that shows this same content with commercials (medium being TV or web-based broadcasts). They might actually try to keep sales of content low in order to keep the value of their own broadcasts high.
They don't want us to buy and own their content, they want us to pay (by watching commercials) each time we use it so that they can make a money each time we do.
Which is too bad for Apple, and for me. I really like to own stuff and the iTunes store seems a nice way to purchase music and series, but I'm affraid the content people don't really like this concept.
Is this the new iMac keyboard? {Engadget}
Jul 27th 2007 10:02AM it seems the original FlickR pics are removed, Apple legal perhaps?
see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/10511663@N02/
Onion newsbrief: iPhone 2.0 in the works {Engadget}
Feb 17th 2007 1:24AM "Jobs also hinted that the second iPhone device would not be compatible with existing Mac computers, third-party peripherals, or any future Apple products." Source: The Onion
I think this one is far more disappointing, does this mean it won't use iTunes to sync with?
Cisco delays Apple iPhone lawsuit, again {Engadget}
Feb 16th 2007 6:57AM VOIP/Skype in the iPhone sounds great, but they don't need Cisco for that. In fact, they don't need anything from Cisco (apart from that trademark thingy), so it's hard to see how it could be beneficial for Apple to be interoperable with Cisco's devices...
Mega hands-on: Virgin America's Airbus A320 with Red in-flight entertainment {Engadget}
Feb 11th 2007 6:30AM Too bad these planes probably won't ever fly over Europe... bummer
Mega hands-on: Virgin America's Airbus A320 with Red in-flight entertainment {Engadget}
Feb 10th 2007 9:42AM @RohitK: your comment did show up this time ;)
Very nice photo gallery, Engadget, it made me want to fly non stop around the world (twice) in that airplane ;)
