Time Warner was forced to pull networks owned by Fox Cable, Viacom and Discovery from its iPad lineup.
For consumers who had both an Apple iPad and a subscription to Time Warner Cable's TV service, the launch of the TWCable TV App seemed like a gift from heaven. Although the actual channel lineup was limited, TWC customers could watch a number of their favorite TV shows anywhere in the house. It became an immediate hit, crashing TWC servers and forcing the company to throttle back its channel offerings until it could handle the high demand on a hardware level.
