I agree. I think apple is focusing on the lifestyle program with the health and home addition. Once they really develop a lifestyle need for the appletv, then they will take over like they've done everything else
Yeah, but on AppleTV you can actually buy decent content and new shows. Much better library than Amazon. Got Days of Future Past last night on Digital HD.
It's on Roku, too. I prefer to buy digital content on Apple TV, though. The distribution to all my devices from there is superb.
Yeah, I have an UltraViolet account too. But there is way more stuff on Itunes, I like buying music concerts on there as well. Its just way simpler, with Roku (which I have in my bedroom), you have to sort through channels and all this crap.
Oh, I bet it will. It's roku's version of the iTunes store for movies. There's 10M+ Roku players out there.
The article is a little misleading. The nexus program is not ever going to be mainstream. It's a low cost reference device. They always have some drawback (my nexus 5 has so so battery and a sub par camera, the nexus 4 didn't have LTE). What it does is show off the latest version of android as it gets every update right away. The other phones that are pure android (or Google's version, not open source) are the Google play edition versions which cost most people more money since they are only sold unsubsidized. What the nexus and GPE lines seem to be doing is forcing OEMs to update their phones faster (25% are on 4.4 and more importantly, over 90% are on the latest version odd Google play services) What Samsung needs to worry about are the Motorola's and one plus ones of the world. Both are selling great phones at great prices with a near GPE android experience. The extra software features they do bake in are actually useful (unlike Samsung where the average user is in a Samsung app for under a few hours a month). One plus had it's own issues, but the phone is supposed to be amazing (if the size doesn't turn you off. The moto x and one plus one, among others, are challenging Samsung at the high end and now the android one program is going after the low low end (developing markets) and moto has the 2 best sub $200 phones out there in the moto g and e. All this is good because the best thing about Android, to me, is choice. Having 75% of the population automatically think of Samsung when they hear "Android" is a bad thing in my mind. Oh and tizen is never going to flouish, if it ever launches in a phone. This was all on my phone, while working, so I don't even know if that made sense. Basically I hope Samsung is in trouble of losing market share, but it isn't due to nexus or GPE version devices.
My brother loves his one plus one. The thing is, you start unsubsidizing phones with carrier plans, these low cost phones will dominate the market, even over iphones.
People need to start demanding that all carriers go the T-mobile rout. Keep the phone as a separate line item. Once you pay off the phone, the line item drops off your bill. Even if they add in some sort of financing charge (unlike TMo), it is a much better deal for users. If I was going to get a new phone today, it'd probably be a one plus one. I carry a camera bag around with me everywhere I go, so a large phone w/ killer battery, + a android wear watch (even as limited as they are today) would be perfect for me. As it stands I'm perfectly happy with my N5.
