Oh lord jesus, Apple is taking over the world. First it conquers the music world with it’s piece of shit iPod that people are only buying to have those little white headphones (I know you guys were thinking it, I just said it :P) and now they are making an attempt to take over the movie rental service too, need I say fuck off?
This is sounding stupider and stupider every minute I see a new Apple story pop up in my Feedreader. They are saying that you are to pay $2.99 for a 30-day movie which expires on the 30th day, I can see the boys at AfterDawn are just creaming there pants waiting to crack that.
They currently have deals with Paramount and Walt Disney and are currently talking with Universal. Please give me a break, they are pretty much saying this will be standard and if you guys don’t jump on the bandwagon now, you will be left behind.
According to the SiliconRepublic the still mainstream method (involving DVD’s and internet) is ordering physical DVD’s from a website such as Netflix.com. I can’t blame people, I much rather go across the road to the video store, pick up a DVD come home and watch it on my couch.
I have no doubt Apple can make it work, I just don’t wanna see it work. Now don’t get me wrong, the internet is probably one of the best things since stringy cheese, but there are just some things that should go uncybered, such as DVD’s, that is just opening the flood gates for warez sites etc.
