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Rumor: Apple to Offer Downloads of Entire Movies - Gizmodo
By Larry Hendrick | February 24, 2006
Apple and full movies … This is a turn that should produce a queasy feeling in the stomachs of other companies working on movie downloads. The one thing Apple has that most other online vendors don’t is the full control of the process. They host, catalog, present with iTunes, one click download, and onto the iPod. With their control of the process, they are hard to compete against.
It will take a Google (or someone with forward thinking) to bring this same element to the Windows world. They will need a software program that is iTunes like, with the same ease of use and single or no click delivery. Then it will get good.
Rumor: Apple to Offer Downloads of Entire Movies - Gizmodo
Speculation about Apple’s April 28 announcement is swarming around the notion of full-length movie downloads sold through the iTunes music store. Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research went out on a limb, oddsmaking the chances as greater than 50% that Apple will open up the floodgates for full-length feature films for download next Tuesday.
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