-Why would anyone ever buy a massively overpriced Apple television screen? It's just a screen, and most it can be is 1080p with a frigging webcam. Stupid!
-let's see, $5,000 for an Apple 50" Display (with internals that will be obsolete/refreshed in 12 months, LOL)
Where are you getting this from? Apple learned their "overpriced" lesson years ago. The original 22" Cinema Display was $3999 when it came out. Now you can get the 27" LED Cinema Display (with more than twice as many pixels) for $999. There's no good reason to infer that Apple would charge $5000 for a 50" TV. I'd bet that Apple could scale up the 27" LED Display, (same resolution, but with TV guts) to 45" or 50" for somewhere between $1500 and $2000.
I mean, I'm not sure how marketable an Apple-branded TV is, but wasn't the same said for the iPhone (Apple should not get into the mobile phone business!) and the iPad (meh, it's just a large iPod touch!)? It's good to maintain a healthy skepticism in any context, but sheesh, give Apple a little credit!
If you were due for a new TV and one was available with Apple TV on board, why would you buy two separate devices.
So that I could update my iOS+A[number] hardware without wasting money on a brand new TV when my existing panel (because that's all a TV will be once the Apple TV really gets rolling) is perfectly fine.
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-Why would anyone ever buy a massively overpriced Apple television screen? It's just a screen, and most it can be is 1080p with a frigging webcam. Stupid!
-let's see, $5,000 for an Apple 50" Display (with internals that will be obsolete/refreshed in 12 months, LOL)
Where are you getting this from? Apple learned their "overpriced" lesson years ago. The original 22" Cinema Display was $3999 when it came out. Now you can get the 27" LED Cinema Display (with more than twice as many pixels) for $999. There's no good reason to infer that Apple would charge $5000 for a 50" TV. I'd bet that Apple could scale up the 27" LED Display, (same resolution, but with TV guts) to 45" or 50" for somewhere between $1500 and $2000.
I mean, I'm not sure how marketable an Apple-branded TV is, but wasn't the same said for the iPhone (Apple should not get into the mobile phone business!) and the iPad (meh, it's just a large iPod touch!)? It's good to maintain a healthy skepticism in any context, but sheesh, give Apple a little credit!
More replying to cloudgazer than the actual author of this quote but...
When Apple makes the Apple TV into what it SHOULD be, no one will waste their money on a TV with GoogleTV built in.
No one is wasting their money on Google TV now, it was pretty much DOA.
No one is wasting their money on Google TV now, it was pretty much DOA.
Oh, good. That's what I thought, too, but I hadn't heard any outside opinions about it.
Please, some one answer me what an Apple-branded TV would do which my current HDTV and AppleTV couldn't do?
If you were due for a new TV and one was available with Apple TV on board, why would you buy two separate devices.
Honestly, I buy a TV for it's picture quality and nothing else. If I want to play games or watch TV, I'll use a dedicated device!
You should check out the iPhone 4. It has a calculator!!!
If you were due for a new TV and one was available with Apple TV on board, why would you buy two separate devices.
So that I could update my iOS+A[number] hardware without wasting money on a brand new TV when my existing panel (because that's all a TV will be once the Apple TV really gets rolling) is perfectly fine.
- U.S. consumers are content.
- The TVs they have are big enough.
- They have enough TVs.
- They are not interested in buying a 3D TV.
- They are not interested in buying a ?smart TV?.
- They want to watch less TV.
- They would rather spend money on something else.
83% of 45000+ randomly polled U.S. households in the second quarter of 2011 had no intention of buying a new TV in the next 12 months.US Consumers Unwilling to Buy New TVs Now at All-Time High of 83 Percent, Citing Economic Fears