What Apple plans to do to conquer the living room remains a question mark. We know the company is interested. Tim Cook has said so. But the rumors that there might be an Apple branded TV set never came to fruition. Even though there were reports about possible prototypes in the world, it never went […]

Apple clearly has a difficult time figuring out how to conquer the living room. At one time, it was thought that Apple might be building a TV set. That emerged from a Steve Jobs quote in Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of him. Jobs announced the discovery of the greatest TV interface ever, and that surely freaked […]

So the story goes that, someday, but maybe not very soon, Apple will debut a subscription TV service. Let the world hold its breath, because it’s going to turn the entire industry on its ear. But first, Apple has to make the proper deals with the TV networks to provide a different experience, so the stories say. […]

As some of you know, I’ve been a customer of cable TV since the 1970s. Yes, the 1970s (cable actually dates back to 1940), when it was all about delivering decent signals from far-away stations in small towns. Things didn’t begin to change until the FCC mandated that cable systems deliver original programming. In fact, […]