Apple to allow downloads of movies and TV shows through the iPhone?

What about movies from itunes in general for the rest of us? I am still waiting for movierental like Jobs promised loooong time ago. Im soooo disappointed.

If you can't have Flash and have to pay for the content it will never Fly and will likely cause me to move to a new phone.

With Hulu & every major Television network offering their content the day after it airs for Free using Flash why would I want to give my money to Apple?

Get over it Apple and put Flash on the iPhone or it will fade away faster than Motorola with the RAZR.

well, before people start shouting and demanding all these bandwidth hogging applications, let's remind ourselves that the 3g technology itself provides limited throughput and breaks down under heavy use. that's not at&t's fault, it's the weakness and problem with WCDMA itself. of course at&t would rather limit usage for the time being than letting you bring down every part of their national mobile network. of course it's more of a problem in europe and now in asia too.

i know people are going to low-mark my comment, but let's just remind ourselves that these are bounded by the knowledge of human being and the laws of physics, not that "i want to xxx" then it will do xxx.

i want to have a gulstream.... can everyone possibly have one on earth? no...

Apple's becoming like M$. The only thing they care about is making more and more money.

What would you call the Music Store? A cash revenue? No it's not because the record labels have a monopoly on their music on the itunes store in many cases if Apple bought music from Amazon they would make more money than if they bought it from the record labels. Apple is only making millions of dollars from the iTunes store, which might seem like a lot but not to a big corporation due to the cost of running. Adding videos to the Mobile Store is for ease of access. Sites like Hulu only give you the right to watch the video, and WITH commercials. On contrary if you buy the video from any movie distributor you BUY the right to own the movie. I see a big difference. Yeah we all want flash blah, blah, blah, honestly? I've been doing great without it. It must be the other pros the iPhone has the App Store, the best music interface on ANY phone (I mean the iPod[if it wasn't for this I might have switched to the G1), the best video output on any phone period. And if you REALLY want flash due like the rest of the people who want more out of a restricted product (LIKE ME!!), and JAILBREAK!

So getting this thread back on track, What's up with:

"Friends"

"Mentions"

"Messages"

Is this Apple slowly and carefully entering a social media space??

Any thoughts people?

Apple is "surviving" the economic downturn thanks to sales outside the US. Now, if they only would realize that, in order to keep growing outside the US, they have to provide some content...
Content in iTunes (TV shows and Movies) will help them boost sales of Apple computers and devices, particularly given the fact that no competition exists in most of the countries. No Hulu, no Amazon, nothing.. (not even iTunes).

I think they should focus on that, before allowing people to download movies and tv shows to a 3.5" screen of their iPhone (a thing which can be done converting already bought material in iTunes I guess).

If Apple wants to continue growing in these harsh economic times they have to:
- improve and update PRO apps (Aperture and Final Cut come to mind)
- deliver content on iTunes worldwide (after all the iPhone has been successfull also because the App Store is available worldwide)

I am not interested in the iPhone gaining another feature which I won't be able to use in my country.

I'd rather have GPS with turn-by-turn directions and downloadable maps (so that it can be useful also when travelling abroad), a better Mail management (similar to Mail.app where the inbox shows ALL incoming messages not just the ones of one account), a higher resolution screen (not to have smaller icons, but better text rendering), some writing applications, iWeb capabilities to upload my website on the go (heck, I would even pay separately for such an app, or have it as part of iLife '10 together with iPhoto for iPhone and GarageBand for iPhone in the same DVD).

I understand, despite what some people tell, that Apple isn't just breaking-even on content delivery, but I don't understand why they don't feel the urge to deliver content in many more countries, particularly where, as said, competition is inexistant.

The advantage of Apple, the thing they realized before anybody else, is that content drives sales nowadays (software and content). They realized it before Sony (a media jaggernaut which sat on their phisical prorietary delivery methods (UMD, MiniDisc, MemoryStick, and on and on) and LONG before Microsoft.

These were my two cents.

Am I the only one that sees things that way?