Comments on: TiVo points to AppleTV’s future http://www.last100.com/2007/12/03/tivo-points-to-appletvs-future/ Tracking the digital lifestyle Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:19:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Bill G http://www.last100.com/2007/12/03/tivo-points-to-appletvs-future/#comment-14522 Bill G Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:12:11 +0000 http://www.last100.com/2007/12/03/tivo-points-to-appletvs-future/#comment-14522 Very few of TiVo's 1.7 million company owned boxes are likely connected to the Internet. Their DirecTiVo units are not. All their announcements about connected services are for an insignificant number of people. Very few AppleTV's have even been sold. Have you ever seen a quoted sales number from Apple? I haven't. That almost certainly indicates sales failure for an Apple product. Nobody is going to acheive mass market status by trying to get the US public to buy an extra box to connect to their TVs. They may be able to convince the cable and satco's to license their IP and put it in their boxes and achieve mass market that way, but that's about all they can hope for. Very few of TiVo’s 1.7 million company owned boxes are likely connected to the Internet. Their DirecTiVo units are not. All their announcements about connected services are for an insignificant number of people.

Very few AppleTV’s have even been sold. Have you ever seen a quoted sales number from Apple? I haven’t. That almost certainly indicates sales failure for an Apple product.

Nobody is going to acheive mass market status by trying to get the US public to buy an extra box to connect to their TVs.

They may be able to convince the cable and satco’s to license their IP and put it in their boxes and achieve mass market that way, but that’s about all they can hope for.

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