News - Competitors respond to Apple announcements

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Amazon steals Apple’s TV show rental thunder and Google hits back at activation dig.

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No UK news about online TV programmes, (although our internet speeds are rubbish compared to USA for this kind of thing)

Also activating 230,000 apple devices a day - If this iphone activations? If so I can't believe this figure is correct for a daily rate. They can't be that many idiots out there or people with the money to spend on an iphone.

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While the $99 AppleTV is not out for another four weeks in the States and there is no word about a UK product

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http://www.apple.com/uk/appletv/ & http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/hom...amily/apple_tv

£99 here in UK, has been since yesterday...

If you meant £0.99 rentals, might want to make that clearer in the article!

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Originally Posted by Brewster0101

No UK news about online TV programmes, (although our internet speeds are rubbish compared to USA for this kind of thing)

Also activating 230,000 apple devices a day - If this iphone activations? If so I can't believe this figure is correct for a daily rate. They can't be that many idiots out there or people with the money to spend on an iphone.

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Really? Have you seen the USA mobile market? I think that's worldwide activations...