The new television units from Google and Apple are soon to appear and opinion about them is mixed. Opinion about anything is always mixed, although reviews of both TV efforts seem to be tarnished by the Apple fans versus the Google fans or the Google fans versus the Apple fans, depending on whose blog or report you are reading.
Opinions on these new high-tech options effecting how we might watch TV for years to come is simply breaking down along party lines in as bad a manner as politics, when in actuality, both TV applications show a lot of promise.
Instead of getting angry with Apple or Google about what the proposed content will be, people need to consider that both TV efforts have to work within the confines of the studios and networks. Apple and Google are trying to expand our horizons by offering us content not tethered by conventional television broadcast rules. Instead of getting excited about that possibility, the tech blogs and reporters are slamming one knew effort over the other in the interest of barns loyalty.
If it were up to the studios and networks, we would continue to get our TV the same way we have always been getting it by these organizations creating scarcity so they can sell reruns of the same old shows over and over to cable and satellite providers until the airwaves are saturated with their content. Then, they move it onto the shelves to sell the same product boxed up as a first run DVD.
So, hats off to Google and Apple for attempting to gives us something different than business as usual.
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