French operator Canal+ has booked a ticket for its video business on the Apple TV luxury yacht, offering subscribers to cable TV and IPTV services in France an Apple TV 4K device to rent for €6 ($7) a month, as an alternative to the traditional set top. To be clear, Canal+ is not offering any special service, but simply acting as a reseller of a connected device. Essentially, rather than go about further cannibalizing its already troubled satellite TV operations, Canal+ has decided to go after the lunch of French IPTV service providers – meaning potentially bad news for Free, Orange, Altice-SFR, Bouygues and their respective vendor suppliers. First off, we need to clear up the confusion this announcement has…