One more thing, yeah right.

Boy oh boy, too much information, too much to speculate, more so before the "One more thing" event. Strange I know, but the door is openned and the party's just starting to warm.

If I get a penny everytime I see someone say they're willing to pay for TV Episodes if there's a legal way to pay for it ...

You know what I mean. It's almost the same thing with MP3 a couple of years ago. The couple of years ago when we didn't have Steve Jobs getting deals done with ITMS. We all downloaded Music, most of us say we'd pay for them if the studios just offer it as a download. Napster was the king, and music was free.

And then ITMS come along. Most of us still download music for free, but we're getting somewhere.

iTunes Music Store is pretty much on track, grown up, no supervision required. It's time to pay attention to the second child.

The situation: Bittorrent is the king. We download TV-Shows (and movies too, but we'll get to that). A lot of us tried to justify our actions: It didn't hurt the creators finantially, TVs are free anyways, or I really want to pay for them but there's no way to do so. Pretty much, erm .. like ... exactly the same thing with Music on Napster?

TVs paid for themselves by commercials, advertistments, quite like the internet sometimes. Content creators get paid based on ratings, losely translatable to number of viewers. So, less people watching the show on TV equals lower ratings, creators don't get paid or shows get cancelled. This is precisely the reason why cool flicks like Futurama got cancelled *cough* stupid fox *cough*


With ITMS providing TV shows, I can just get the episode of LOST I missed because my boss was being an ass.

But more interestingly, this would end up hurting international TV Stations that get to premiere these shows later. For instance, they're just showing LOST season 1 here in HK, probably a good couple of months behind. I can just use iTunes to get the shows instantly. TV producers get paid, I have no commercial instant satisfaction, and the TV Station gets low rating and charge less for the commercial times. I'm not sure how much importance to put into this. iTunes Music Store is supposedly region specific, so in theory I can't buy these episodes.

But how hard is it to get around that really?

Garage Video?
Remember all the Disney movies sequals that go straight to Video? Now TV Producers can probably work on a series and feature it entirely on iTunes. How cool is that?

Anyways, I'm tired, just by thinking about the implications of the new products, and the direction Apple's heading. We'll get to the Video Ipod, new iMac soon.