Just placed an entry on my podServe blog about iPlayer on the iPad - coming out, free, on Friday. I love iPlayer, mainly for radio programmes, and this is a brilliant step in the right direction. The same facility is being made available for Android users too.
But - and this is a quibble, but a big one - where does this leave Apple TV? If I have Google TV on Friday I will be able to use iPlayer on my lounge TV. Yes I will be able to watch catch-up TV on my TV. Sure doing that on an iPad is good too, but isn't this second best to watching TV on a TV set?
Clearly this cannot be allowed to continue as it puts Apple TV at massive disadvantage to Google TV (which runs on Android). Apple TV is already lagging here in the UK by the absence of a great movie streaming service compared to the US offering. This morning, if I were head of Apple in the UK, I would be on the phone to Head Office demanding that this functionality should be Apple TV bound in a few days.
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