Google Tv Has Doubters in Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Analysts
Google TV is months away from launching, but it already has doubters in Apple CEO Steve Jobs and some industry analysts who believe the search engine will fail where Microsoft, Apple, Sony and several startups have failed before. Jobs’ comments could be just misdirection, as he said the set-top box as we know it today must be rebuilt from scratch to account for interactivity between the Web and TV. Could Apple be planning to do just this in light of Google’s new foray into television?
Google TV is months away from launching, but it already has doubters in Apple CEO Steve Jobs and some industry analysts who believe the search engine will fail whereMicrosoft, Apple, Sony and several startups have failed before.
When asked at the AllThingsDigital D8 conference June 1 about the failure of today’s efforts to marry the Web with TV, Jobs said the fault lay in the go-to-market strategy:
“The television industry fundamentally has a subsidized business model that gives everybody a set top box for free or for $10 a month, and that pretty much squashes any opportunity for innovation because nobody is willing to buy a set-top box.”
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