It turns out Apple may have been interested in television after all. We recently found out from Steve's Jobs's biography that Jobs was exploring the idea of an Apple-branded television set and now a report from GigaOM reveals that Apple was pursuing a streaming TV service as well. This small tidbit information comes from CBS CEO Les Moonves who confirmed that Apple approached his company about licensing content for this service.
Speaking during CBS's latest earning conference call, Moonves told analysts that CBS turned down an Apple deal that would let Apple stream CBS TV shows in exchange for a split of ad revenues. CBS reportedly turned down the deal because the media company prefe
