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To: Bubba Ho-Tep
"Look for them to expand to Roku and other devices after the three-month exclusive."

So then the 3 month exclusion was for....

Nothing at all except to trick people who own a roku into buying an Apple.

Like I said, Not gonna stop pirating in fact the people who do most of the pirating already hate Apple and Big Media.

75 posted on 03/11/2015 11:29:12 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg
So then the 3 month exclusion was for....

Here's what one article said: "There are obvious advantages for both sides: HBO, which doesn’t have any experience selling directly to consumers, gets to work with a digital distributor that already has more than 400 million credit cards on file — and has a customer service set-up in place to support all of those customers."

Nothing at all except to trick people who own a roku into buying an Apple.

No, to ease into a market they don't know. And if some people ditch their Rokus for Apple TV, what do you care?

Like I said, Not gonna stop pirating in fact the people who do most of the pirating already hate Apple and Big Media.

Of course it's not going to stop pirating, but it is going to add to HBOs revenue stream. A lot of people, believe it or not, neither pirate nor have cable/satellite subscriptions.

99 posted on 03/11/2015 11:44:08 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Mad Dawgg
Nothing at all except to trick people who own a roku into buying an Apple.

Not really. HBO GO has had a ROKU app for years. HBO GO contains the entire HBO catalog. You do, currently, have to sign in via your cable/satellite provider. That will likely change if the HBO streaming shows promise.
104 posted on 03/11/2015 11:55:26 AM PDT by TomGuy
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