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Phil Windley spoke to Steve Gillmor, who over-estimates the impact of Apple's existing (and upcoming) technology:
The iPhone will kill the Blackberry. Apple TV will kill the DVR. In Steve's view, the iPhone is center-stage--everything else is a peripheral to it. The secret to understanding this is to realize that more and more, text, images, audio, and video are "cached across the surface area of my environment: laptop, AppleTV, iPhone," in Steve's words.
AppleTV doesn't help me timeshift content that the Apple store doesn't sell, and there's tons of that. As to the iPhone: not at the price they've set, no. I expect both products to be successful - in particular, AppleTV puts all the video content in iTunes (including lots of free niche stuff) right at your TV, where you want it. Unless they turn it into a full DVR though, it will be an extra piece, not a replacement.
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