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Jobs and Iger on Disney and Pixar

ColoJohnBoy said:
Did anybody actually see this interview? Steve and Iger were taped in front of a black backdrop, and as Steve was wearing his typical black shirt, it looked like Iger and a floating head. Creepy...
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Well in order Apple to survive after SJ passes on, they've decided to take his head and put it in a jar and keep it alive, so he can continue to make decisions. They're just trying to get people used to the idea.
 
iPod video?

My bets are still on an iPod video looking something like the Archos AV 700 but more iPod-ish/sexier and with a cleaner UI.

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if the "real" video ipod has a screen anywhere as big as that archos, i will probably buy it...but if it's anywhere as ugly as the archos, no way.
 
I don't think Jobs is evolving. He's just spinning different.

Why would he talk up video before the video iPod when his company didn't have video? He talks down what Apple doesn't make, and promotes what they do make. It's no more complex than that.

David😎
 
hayesk said:
NASCAR is the #1 "sport" in the US, is it not? Other forms of car racing are popular all over the world.

I'm sure it'll do well. However, I think this movie may be more for kids than for adults, whereas the previous movies seemed to made for both.

However, we've only seen a trailer - too early to tell.
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Football (NFL) is the most popular sport in the US. NASCAR is the fastest growing sport here. At least that is what I have always been told.
 
Brilliant

Jobs is correct again, Cars will be amazing and the stratedgy continues. Macs for education, the idea that we ween our children on them, is still going. Now we see an Apple-Disney collaboration that will bolster Disney stocks and cause the relase of a childrens video unit. All those Disney movies at the fingertips of your child. You start on Apple, you grow up on Apple. It will have parents and children hooked. Everybody weens in this situation.
 
Porchland said:
My bets are still on an iPod video looking something like the Archos AV 700 but more iPod-ish/sexier and with a cleaner UI.

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IMHO what's old is new again. Look at the Apple Messagepad 2100

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Look at the design already there.

-Protective flipcover that can double as a stand for viewing.
-5.9" widescreen
-Expansion slots for CF storage. (Drop one of the PCMCIA slots though
-More then enough space for a substantial lithium-polymer battery.
-Dock port / TV out where the serial interface currently is.

I mean honestly it's the best form factor for video watching. As for the claim that people don't watch movies over and over again. This is true however when you have a large collection of videos its nice to revisit old movies. I have 480 DVD's (500+ movies if you count the handful of VHS tapes as well.) When I can't find anything interesting on TV I walk over to the wall 'o entertainment and pick out something I have watched in a while. Last night it was Evil Dead and Army of Darkness (Just finished reading bruce campbell's autobiography that evening.)
The same thing could be said of music collections. Why do you need all that music when only a few hundred would do? It’s about having all your content with you so you enjoy it anywhere, anytime.
 
Doctor Q said:
More importantly, people will buy movies if they think they will watch them many times, whether or not they actually do.
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I mean I saw M.A.S.H. (the movie) at least 25-30 times already and I think I will watch it many times more 🙂.
 
SiliconAddict said:
I have 480 DVD's (500+ movies if you count the handful of VHS tapes as well.) When I can't find anything interesting on TV I walk over to the wall 'o entertainment and pick out something I have watched in a while. Last night it was Evil Dead and Army of Darkness (Just finished reading bruce campbell's autobiography that evening.)
The same thing could be said of music collections. Why do you need all that music when only a few hundred would do? It’s about having all your content with you so you enjoy it anywhere, anytime.
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I don't have quite that many DVDs, but I have alot of TV series. These are always great when friends are over, and you have no idea what to do. Pop in a Futurama episode, grab beer and chips, and everything is just grand. (Especially popular is the mute-star-trek-and-redub-while-drunk game). Sure I've watched some episodes a billion times ("Hey, could we watch the one where Picard turns into that robot??"), but I enjoy finding new elements, and with the right people, it's always fun.
 
msascha said:
I mean I saw M.A.S.H. (the movie) at least 25-30 times already and I think I will watch it many times more 🙂.
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Exactly. I do own a fair amount of DVDs and will continue purchasing and collecting them. And even if I'd buy a portable player, I'd never download a badly compressed film rather re-encode my own to watch it on the device. Just what I do on my PSP. I wonder though who buy UMDs for the same price like DVDs. 😱
 
Carl Howe (Blackfriars Communications) submits: It’s all over but the paper signing. BusinessWeek says that Disney’s board has approved its takeover of Pixar, which means, as a side effect, Steve Jobs becomes the largest stockholder of Disney. This sounds like a simple merger and acquisition story, but it actually reshapes the tech and TV businesses. How? Here’s our view of what this deal really means:

* Disney regains its crown as an animation powerhouse. No studio has ever achieved six blockbuster movie hits in a row before Pixar. With Pixar on board, Disney can now add Monsters Inc. and Toy Story to its existing stable of classic movies such as Snow White and Beauty and the Beast.

* Apple gains a gold-plated Fortune 100 customer. Expect Disney to start becoming the biggest buyer of Apple MacBooks and PowerMacs in the country. Why? Imagine being in a board meeting with Steve Jobs, watching the largest shareholder pull out his MacBook to take notes while you pull out your Dell. At least some board members will decide they need a new laptop. And once executives in the boardroom start using Macs, it won’t be long before Apples are on the approved computer list.

* iTunes garners access to serious video content. The trickle of iTunes TV shows that started with Desperate Housewives and Lost will grow to a flood this year as new iTunes revenue turns skeptics to converts. As Apple begins creating its own on-demand TV network, Disney will rapidly become the preferred distribution studio because of its deep connection to iTunes.

* Apple gets serious influence in Hollywood. Unlike when Steve Jobs negotiated for rights to distribute music as an outsider, Jobs will now be a peer in Hollywood. When Jobs weighs in on anything from next-generation DVD formats to digital rights management technology, he’ll now be able to drive deals and standards that an outsider never would be able to pull off.

With Jobs and Disney CEO Robert Iger joined at the hip, the days when Hollywood could just stonewall a new technology like iPods or dictate distribution terms for movies are over. Steve Jobs’ relationship with Disney is now a trump card in his hand. For players in both Silicon Valley and Hollywood, that means it’s now a whole different game.
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Whoa...imagine that...the CEO of Disney says that "Cars" is one of the best movies he's ever seen. He is REALLY going out on a limb there...seeing as how his company is distributing it and all. KUDOS to you, Bob Iger!
 
deal makes me sick

this deal makes me sick - and steve jobs should have known better- he used his pixar company to get a content deal for the ipod - if he was aware of anything apart from his big ego he would have seen what iger is like - a rude nasty businessmen who cares soley about money- they don't want pixar to be creative they want to buy out the alternative animation studios to strangle them and use their name.

You can critise Eisner's leadership but at least he had some decency to staff. On the day that iger took over disney, he single handedly fired the enter muppets division at disney a few weeks after they were bought - cancelled the shows planned and only plans to use them to sell the back catalogue of muppet movies. Steve jobs once had think different campaigns for its computers one featuring jim henson and kermit. Nothing that disney can make can ever match to pixar's quality nor the muppets. They both need to be hit by miss piggy. Now steve jobs belongs to disney i will write to him about disney's digusting practices to the muppets.

here are a few quotes about disney

Let’s face it — on most analyses of the company’s business practices or its artistic oeuvre, modern Disney sucks. And while there are many things that it sucks at — theme parks, fending off hostile takeover bids from Comcast, keeping any parent in its children’s films alive past the first reel — what it surely sucks at the most is being funny. The entire Disney corporation couldn’t tell a joke if Mickey Mouse’s life depended on it. Or, rather, it could — but it would first have to pass it through three focus groups, all its senior management, Disney’s representatives in China, the National Rifle Association, the League of Decency and, probably, Condoleezza Rice, just to check that it wouldn’t offend anyone, and subsequently lose the company a single $5 ticket at the box office.
 
One reason I bought a 17" powerBook was to watch tons of DVD's, including a goodly number of films over and over again.

A sizeable number of people I know rent their DVD's, and have a large stash of their faves on a shelf -- and they complain of running out of shelf space.

I think Jobs just doesn't have the time to watch flicks.
 
I too think Cars will not be good. So much in fact I sent a report to Pixar entitled Why Cars Will suck and have even made a podcast on it. Check out all that good stuff over at

http://silencecanneverstaysilent.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_silencecanneverstaysilent_archive.html

Read the report by clicking November 2005 to the left.


And if your also interested in what Jobs and Iger didn't tell us in the CNBC interview check out some speculation at "The Best Idea Steve Jobs Doesnt Know About" check out the forum here at Mac rumors
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/176130/
 
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