2013 smart TVs dismissed as 'not that smart,' leaving opportunity for Apple - Page 2

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Originally Posted by JCE10 

Remember the pre-iPhone era? History is repeating itself.

 

Back then PCs were the central to how people use technology. So manufacturers tried to cram what worked on PCs into smart phones, while others tried to cram PCs into tablets, and both results were terrible.

 

Now that smart phones are the hottest thing, people start to cram what worked on smart phones into the device of the next battle field -- TVs. "Look! You can do all those cool things that your smart phones do right on your TV! Yay! We beat Apple to it!"

 

I may not speak for everyone, but I do not want to use my TV as a computer or a smart phone. I do not care for FB on my TV screen, nor do I care for web browsing at 10 feet away. I want to be able to sit down and enjoy TV -- all my favorite shows, at any time I want. There are quite a few contenders in this space, but so far none has met my requirement. Whoever can make a TV that does this will get my money.

Could not agree more, and think it is funny now that you put it into text, as to how everyone is trying to make the next thing like the last, while Apple is innovating new ways to interact with content no matter where it might be. 

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Originally Posted by palegolas 

Indeed it's leaving an opportunity for Apple... or anyone else with a vision for that matter.

Only Apple can do it.

I'm with Cook, I use my iPad and iPhone 80% of the time. (I remember not too long ago, when people on these boards were questioning how the iPad would fit in between the iPhone and laptops/desktops.)

The future is, relatively inexpensive Apple iOS devises with small screens, small SSD's using iCloud to access all your "stuff!" At home you will have a 50" to 90" Apple TV that is designed for movie watching and TV watching and maybe games. It will have an elegant design, elegant interface and seamlessly interact with said iOS devices as far as music, photos, video, etc. It will be controlled by Siri.

The hold up is a handful of backward thinking, price gouging Cable companies, whose days are numbered, btw.

P.S. And, eventually, Apple will have a dedicated iOS device in your car. Perfect!

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Originally Posted by dasanman69 


In case you didn't hear revenue was up for the TV industry this past year. Apple has no leverage to change things.

Agreed...perhaps it will be up to the 20 to 30 year olds that aren't watching TV in a traditional way.

Originally Posted by jragosta 
Just how blind do you have to be to think they're the same?

Color. That's it.

Please don't tell me you're honestly pretending they aren't as similar as legally (or not) possible. 

The problem with Apple is that they don't have technology for display screens. In the foreseeable future, Apple will have to rely on other vendors for the new flexible 4K OLED. screens for the new Apple smart TV.

Originally Posted by peter236 
The problem with Apple is that they don't have technology for display screens. In the foreseeable future, Apple will have to rely on other vendors for the new flexible 4K OLED. screens for the new Apple smart TV.

Apple's not gonna use OLED for anything of theirs. They've spent billions to get around OLED.

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Originally Posted by peter236 

The problem with Apple is that they don't have technology for display screens. In the foreseeable future, Apple will have to rely on other vendors for the new flexible 4K OLED. screens for the new Apple smart TV.

"Flexible 4K OLED"?  I think you might be kind of jumping the gun. I don't think Apple was planning on making a $15K novelty one off.

Anyway, here's what will happen if Apple brings forth a successful TV integration solution:  some of the same people posting on this thread will rush to remind us that Apple isn't doing anything new or innovative, since folks like Samsung already were offering what they called "smart TVs", despite that such products haven't really caught on because they pretty much suck.  It's enough that there's a preexisting category that an Apple product could be roughly assigned to.   Some will claim that Apple's solution was "inevitable" and "obvious" and that therefore no innovation can be credited; the fact that such people cannot, at this point, explain to us what that obvious solution looks like until Apple offers it up will in no way mute their bellowing.  Because such people are shameless fucking shit heads.

Finally, if Apple is successful, every other manufacturer of "smart TVs" will immediately start releasing products that mimic Apple's as closely as possible without necessarily triggering litigation.  When anyone points that out, the same folk will express horror and disgust that obvious and inevitable things can be patented or copyrighted, that Apple better not try to stifle innovation by suing anyone, and that Apple's customers are dim-wiited fucktards for imagining that Apple is the only company that can figure stuff out.  Because, again, such people are just completely contemptible assholes.

Originally Posted by Timbit 
Where is that "new Samsungtv" that was supposed to come out? Was it just that slightly curved one?

The "revolutionary shape"? It was the one in the easel.

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Originally Posted by ifij775 

While I always thought a smarter Apple TV would be enough, watching my parents try to navigate the pile of remotes they have for all of the boxes hooked up to their TV I can see that an integrated solution makes more sense in usability. 

My mom just bought one of those Samsung smart TV's for my dad's birthday, she was also talked into buying the keyboard for it which turned out to be a brilliant purchase as anyone who has ever tried to select a single letter to make up a word while use a remote can contest that it is probably more enjoyable pulling out ones toenails. Anyway, what a piece of crap, the TV's picture is awesome no question about that but the Smart part is so slow and buggy that I think it's going to put my parents into a early grave. Skype did work though which turned out to be the only app that did, the rest of the them never stayed up long enough to be of any use. Thankfully though my brother had bought my dad a Boxee for Christmas, in which of course he immediately put in the garage next to the unopened golf rug golf putter from Sharper Image that I bought him two years ago and a waving Santa that hasn't worked since 1975. First time I have ever gotten to see a Boxee but my brother swears by them, so we hooked it up and I have to say it's not all that bad. Interface is snappy, surfing was actually enjoyable and all of the apps like Hulu and HBO Go worked flawlessly.

So if anyone is planning on getting one I would skip it, not worth the headache. The real shock of the night was me discovering that my mom is a pirate, my brother is to blame of course. He had given her a Samsung Tab 7.7 that he received as a gift/bonus from work, he showed her a website where you can download movies from and boy has she been downloading. I threatened to turn her in if she didn't give me her set of these really cute 50's dishes of a black cat showing it's but hole while turning it's head towards you. After showing her how to stream her pirate booty using Samsung's AllShare, a DLNA program ,to their new TV I got to take home the dishes. 

When did parents become so irresponsible and how do I get my hands on the matching kitty butt hole punch bowl with ladle.

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Originally Posted by Curtis Hannah 



No well the one above that has a similar name/icon as Siri. (Shown above)

Samsung had the logo back in 2010, the black microphone logo actually originated from Google. The Rainbow Pentagon thing has been around even longer then that. I still have the original box from my Galaxy S1 and it has that rainbow on it. Not everything is a conspiracy. Forget about all that, Apple bought the company Siri, it's not even a in house project and if it wasn't for that purchase Siri would be an Android only app right now.