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Email'n'Walk iPhone app finally lets us leave the house {Engadget Mobile}
May 15th 2009 2:42PM am i the only one who thinks this is rather stupid?
who actually holds the phone vertically while writing or reading? i imagine i'd mostly just see pictures of the sidewalk 10 feet in front of me...
Hulu asks Boxee to pull content, it complies {Engadget}
Feb 18th 2009 8:45PM Boxee is quite possibly the coolest application I've seen trying to figure out the Internet/TV challenge. I've tried a number and have never been impressed, but Boxee gets me excited. It works from a 10' distance, with my Apple remote on my iMac. This is HUGE. I love it!
I don't really care that Hulu got pulled since I couldn't care less about the garbage that Network television produces, but still this worries me a bit... what bothers me is that we still have the producers and distributors of content having their heads up their asses.
Read Matt Mason's "The Pirate's Dilemma," you idiots. I wish they would see that the only reason I download illegally using torrents is because their is a market need being unfulfilled. The piracy exists because customers willing to pay for content can't get it when they want it, how they want it, and at a price they are okay with paying. I pay my cable company for Internet access, but not for TV, because I don't have a TV. To me, however, they deliver the content through the same physical cables, so what's the deal? I'm not going to wait until next season when a show comes out on DVD to watch something everyone with cable TV can watch when it's aired. Video on demand is the future and these idiots need to figure this out. I would definitely pay per episode for the content I want. And there's plenty I want. But I feel like I have no option but to download illegally.
With Boxee, I can comfortably and relatively quickly navigate between content on my machine and online. It has a nice user experience, the content is delivered quite rapidly, and the full screen interface is readable from a distance and cute. You think I care about watching a 15-second commercial? I'm perfectly happy if that's what it takes to keep the business model working. If I have to pay a reasonable inexpensive fee to watch content, then ok. If I were to pay $50 a month for cable TV ($600 a year) and watch 2 hours of entertainment per day on average (which is way below the national average, I know), then I'm basically paying about $0.82 per hour of entertainment. How about we just round it to $1 or $0.99 and stick to charging people that rate per hour of entertainment? Maybe free or less than $1 for stupid shit that has mass appeal, maybe a bit higher for premium content. Explain to me how this doesn't work on a massive scale. If 300 million people watch an average of 4 hours of TV per day that means we watch 438 billion hours of TV per year. At $1 per hour that's a pretty big industry, wouldn't you say?
Apple adds OTA podcast downloads to iPhone firmware 2.2, continues to burn developers {Engadget}
Nov 6th 2008 1:00PM don't you see that they are all evil? google will be as bad... there is only one good in business: profit.
all the rules, regulations, etc.... they just make the art of deviousness and anticompetitiveness more interesting to watch.
reject all tech and return to the forest, that's what i say...
-a.g.
