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Associated Press jumps into Apple TV movie lies fracas

Mar. 6, 2008 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Although, being the AP, they're just noting that Apple has fallen "short of movie rental goal." I didn't read their claim as a "goal," but rather as a pronouncement.

Apple has fallen substantially short of its target of having 1,000 movies available for rent on its Apple TV set-top box by the end of February, and is blaming studios for the discrepancy.

A complete count of the number of movies available on the box on Wednesday was elusive, but appeared to be between 400 and 500. A menu option that showed all movies at once has been removed, and some movies can be found only by searching for words in the title.

Just so I'm reading this correctly: They're blaming someone else and they've removed the view that lets you see the total number of available movies. Nice!
 

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Waethorn
on Mar 6, 2008
Sounds like another rendition of the "300 new features (+ some secret ones)" debacle.
daveinla
on Mar 6, 2008
Yeahhh !!!!!!!! The 2nd episode of the fight regarding the Lies of Apple that enjoy announcing figures and then retracts just to punish the iTunes users as well as their business !!! ... And the "Debacle of Leopard !!!!" which as everybody knows shipped with none of the 300+ features announced !! What a bunch of Liars ! Get ready for another 70+ thread !!! Nice job Weathorn ! ;-p
urgal
on Mar 6, 2008
Paul: I still don't understand the basis of your labeling these Apple statements "lies". To lie is to knowingly tell a falsehood with the intent to deceive. To show that someone has lied, it's not enough to show they spoke falsely. You must show they knew they were speaking falsely at the time, and did so meaning to deceive. (All kids know this by the time they are five.) Your original post gave no evidence of knowledge or intent. You simply observed what MacWorld had already observed: that something Apple announced had proven to be false. That, in itself, is not lying. If you have proof of lying (documents, emails, insider info showing knowledge and intent) you should give it. If you don't, and didn't have when you posted, then you should rethink your position. You can say: "In my opinion they were lying" but nothing stronger than that. By the way, I think that *many* claims about Microsoft "lying" are mistaken in exactly the same way.
Lindy
on Mar 6, 2008
Umm yeah did anyone else in the press use the word "lies"? You truly are desperate for readers. Did you go to the Michael Savage school of journalism??
johnpapola
on Mar 6, 2008
Paul, you should take note of how professional journalists steer clear of incendiary language like "lying" when they have no proof to back it up. I'm not sure why you don't take these language and tone issues more seriously as a writer. It's pretty hard to not to come back to drumming up hits for the website by pissing people off. Waethorn: Funny, I've been enjoying every single feature Steve demonstrated in leopard since every one is in the product and works as advertised. How's WinFS treating you? Before anyone gets too dead into debate, I suggest you re-read this: http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/03/03/even-mac...
cesjr
on Mar 6, 2008
"Just so I'm reading this correctly: They're blaming someone else" Kind of like how MS is now blaming intel for the Windows Vista Capable fiasco.
lotsamystuff
on Mar 6, 2008
Overheard in conversation: Waethorn: "Look! A dead horse!" Paul: "Cool! You hold it down while I beat it!"
urgal
on Mar 6, 2008
The issue in not WIN vs. Mac. The issue is whether Paul, who presents himself as a neutral observer (and who, in my opinion, has raised some legitimate issues about Apple in the past), has substantiated the main claim of his original post. He has not. The central claim of the post was that Apple had lied. But *no* - repeat *no* - evidence was offered for this claim. This is simply bad journalism/reporting/blogging. It leaves the author open to charges of bias and/or cheap sensationalism.
SPiotr
on Mar 6, 2008
"When asked about video rental media availability in iTunes in terms of both quality and quantity, Jobs admitted that the studios have fallen behind in delivering content, mirroring the same kinds of issues labels had in setting up music within the first year of the iTunes Store. Jobs said the goal of 1000 rental titles was still short at around 600, and that quality varied from "spectacular to than less that what we'd like to see," but noted that the studios are working on difficult issues with gaining clearance for content created before anyone had contemplated Internet distribution. Existing films need to have rights lined up from talent and copyright owners who had never outlined their rights and royalties in terms of downloads, and work in those areas is accelerating."
Waethorn
on Mar 6, 2008
"How's WinFS treating you?" Just fine thanks - Windows Home Server's new file system, coupled with Windows Search Server is what's come of it - a metadata-driven file system with single instance storage and instant searching. And no, none of my systems experience the supposed "data loss" problem. It only affects slow WHS boxes, of which I don't make or sell. "I've been enjoying every single feature Steve demonstrated in leopard since every one is in the product and works as advertised" ya, you know, if you get excited with where they place the playback control in the DVD player, i guess Leopard is just worth it.
Dipsh t Admin
on Mar 7, 2008
"I've been enjoying every single feature Steve demonstrated in leopard since every one is in the product and works as advertised" So, your using the improvements to Automator, AppleScript, Dashcode, Japanese language support, JIS2004 support, Mail stationary (I really hope your not), Alex the new mail voice, and Xcode?

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