Apple would never want to release any app-capable iOS device until developers have had time to build apps for it. That means *after* WWDC, which will happen next summer.
Not that I really believe this rumour but the iPad was released with developers just having three months between the announcement in January and shipment in April.
Just wanted to give you some inside info about these tv's
They will offer a new IPTV service from Apple. This is what their new data and upcoming data farms are really for.
Apple will make it so easy to watch tv now and in the future.
Buy, unbox, plug into outlet, plug into ethernet and turn on. No more set top boxes!
When you turn on tv, Apple will offer you a new tv experience you will be able to subscribe too. All your favorite channels, on demand movies, live sports and great apps that you can select on a sidebar or overlay live picture.
Just wanted to give you some inside info about these tv's
They will offer a new IPTV service from Apple. This is what their new data and upcoming data farms are really for.
Apple will make it so easy to watch tv now and in the future.
Buy, unbox, plug into outlet, plug into ethernet and turn on. No more set top boxes!
When you turn on tv, Apple will offer you a new tv experience you will be able to subscribe too. All your favorite channels, on demand movies, live sports and great apps that you can select on a sidebar or overlay live picture.
It will be a game changer in the tv industry.
THIS I buy. And this I WOULD buy as an actual product.
But as the new OS for the Apple TV, a standalone device, tiny, with an A5 chip and no internal storage save for 16GB of NAND for cache. Not as a television.
Sounds plausible, especially if the external ATV was the experiment, but I don't think the price points are even close to what the market will bear right now.
I'd much rather see the current Apple TV turn into a full set top box with the blessings from the cable companies. There are only a handful of providers and Apple could easily make it attractive to them by offering iAds in a slick new GUI with intuitive menus, searching, advanced remote and DVR controls. Maybe even voice actuated. Simply being able to easily navigate the menus would probably increase the cable company's pay per view sales by a 1000%.
Once that is in place, then they bring in the HDTV.
Apple currently supports its iOS devices for about two years before dropping them from getting iOS updates. An HDTV screen can last for a whole lot longer than that. I'll be damned if I'd pay thousands for a TV that needs to be replaced so soon when I can just buy a dumb screen that will last for many years and then connect a $100 box to that that I can replace in a couple years.
The dumb box also makes it easy to split the signal and send it to two TVs--one in the kitchen and one in the living room. Very useful when cooking and moving back and forth between rooms.
Hi, I have some baseless speculation about a rumored Apple product.
Not convinced? Allow me to add some utterly made numbers: 3 models, 2" thick, 16 speakers. Can't argue with numbers.
Wait, still not buying it? OK, how about this: my information is likely 75% accurate. Meaning of the four people I ran this by, only one of them was actually drunk at the time.
No, you mean that only one of them was actually SOBER at the time.
I don't think those are the relevant comparisons, by a stretch.
Those were trivial rumors.
So's the Apple HDTV.
Oh, sorry, does the rumor being seven years old and continually unfounded make it "not trivial"? Because the tablet rumor has been around longer and the xMac's from about the same time.
So what if the TV is also an iMac. And has voice control. If Apple WAS to bring something out, it would have to be radically different and they seem to be pretty good at finding new markets. Just speculating here...
This rumor makes no sense to me at all. Why would Apple want to involve itself in an industry that is in a perpetual race to the bottom with little no profit margin. I fail to see how this would benefit the Apple ecosystem. It is only slightly more relevant than an "iBlender."
Maybe because they're making a lot of money in that industry that, for all other players, is in a perpetual race to the bottom with little or no profit margin? You know, the personal computer industry? :-)
Appletv was always a "hobby" or experiment, cause Steve does not like set top boxes. The new apple tv will have the current appletv box inside. no need to try to explain to customers what it is, how to use it, how to switch from their cable box to appletv. you may laugh, but many people just don't "get" the apple tv box.
Apple will push the envelope with their new iptv HDTV's. they will also have the ability to access their cable channels if their cable company will cater to them and let them have no box. Apple is going to use this new tv to try to push set top boxes out the door
Which is what they said about a tablet that ran full OS X, the iPhone nano, and the xMac.
Just echoing the past.
As Steve has said, there is no "go to market solution" for Apple vis-a-vis TV.
I can't see Apple offering a large screen TV solution before they can develop a solution to deliver "live TV" to the iPad (maybe using ATV).
It is not a hardware, software or app problem -- rather a logistical problem -- working with or around the cable companies, broadcasters and the content owners.
Just wanted to give you some inside info about these tv's
They will offer a new IPTV service from Apple. This is what their new data and upcoming data farms are really for.
Apple will make it so easy to watch tv now and in the future.
Buy, unbox, plug into outlet, plug into ethernet and turn on. No more set top boxes!
When you turn on tv, Apple will offer you a new tv experience you will be able to subscribe too. All your favorite channels, on demand movies, live sports and great apps that you can select on a sidebar or overlay live picture.
It will be a game changer in the tv industry.
Yes it will, until the ISPs start taxing away any profit that Apple generates. There is no profit to be made in media and data streaming if you don't have your own network. Transmission is where the choke point is, that's the bridge at which every troll sets up his toll booth. Either the feds will have to regulate that massively or Apple takes some of its 70+ billions and uses that to set up its own exclusive ISP.
Rumor followed by skeptical, sarcastic responses. See above. This reminds me of something... wait a minute... wait a minute... There was this rumor in 2006 about an "i" thing that everybody was laughing at Apple about. Something about a mature, commoditized, cutthroat market that would eat Apple alive? Well, they're not laughing any more are they. And why did Apple remove "Computer" from its corporate name? Let me think about that one again.
Which is why every rumor about a possible Apple product must be true?
The fact that Apple sometimes makes things that people thought they wouldn't doesn't mean thinking they won't make something is evidence that they will.
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But Apple creating a TV that blows tbe current products out of the water is pretty much a given. I have no doubt that we'll have the last laugh!
Which is what they said about a tablet that ran full OS X, the iPhone nano, and the xMac.
Just echoing the past.
Apple would never want to release any app-capable iOS device until developers have had time to build apps for it. That means *after* WWDC, which will happen next summer.
Not that I really believe this rumour but the iPad was released with developers just having three months between the announcement in January and shipment in April.
Just wanted to give you some inside info about these tv's
They will offer a new IPTV service from Apple. This is what their new data and upcoming data farms are really for.
Apple will make it so easy to watch tv now and in the future.
Buy, unbox, plug into outlet, plug into ethernet and turn on. No more set top boxes!
When you turn on tv, Apple will offer you a new tv experience you will be able to subscribe too. All your favorite channels, on demand movies, live sports and great apps that you can select on a sidebar or overlay live picture.
It will be a game changer in the tv industry.
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Just wanted to give you some inside info about these tv's
They will offer a new IPTV service from Apple. This is what their new data and upcoming data farms are really for.
Apple will make it so easy to watch tv now and in the future.
Buy, unbox, plug into outlet, plug into ethernet and turn on. No more set top boxes!
When you turn on tv, Apple will offer you a new tv experience you will be able to subscribe too. All your favorite channels, on demand movies, live sports and great apps that you can select on a sidebar or overlay live picture.
It will be a game changer in the tv industry.
THIS I buy. And this I WOULD buy as an actual product.
But as the new OS for the Apple TV, a standalone device, tiny, with an A5 chip and no internal storage save for 16GB of NAND for cache. Not as a television.
Once that is in place, then they bring in the HDTV.
The dumb box also makes it easy to split the signal and send it to two TVs--one in the kitchen and one in the living room. Very useful when cooking and moving back and forth between rooms.
If every analyst got (rightly) fired when their predictions are shown to be wrong, we'd have no analysts left.
Instead they get paid more.
Its a topsy turvey world we live in.
These guys are no better than TV show mediums.
Which is what they said about a tablet that ran full OS X, the iPhone nano, and the xMac.
Just echoing the past.
I don't think those are the relevant comparisons, by a stretch.
Those were trivial rumors.
Hi, I have some baseless speculation about a rumored Apple product.
Not convinced? Allow me to add some utterly made numbers: 3 models, 2" thick, 16 speakers. Can't argue with numbers.
Wait, still not buying it? OK, how about this: my information is likely 75% accurate. Meaning of the four people I ran this by, only one of them was actually drunk at the time.
No, you mean that only one of them was actually SOBER at the time.
I don't think those are the relevant comparisons, by a stretch.
Those were trivial rumors.
So's the Apple HDTV.
Oh, sorry, does the rumor being seven years old and continually unfounded make it "not trivial"? Because the tablet rumor has been around longer and the xMac's from about the same time.
This rumor makes no sense to me at all. Why would Apple want to involve itself in an industry that is in a perpetual race to the bottom with little no profit margin. I fail to see how this would benefit the Apple ecosystem. It is only slightly more relevant than an "iBlender."
Maybe because they're making a lot of money in that industry that, for all other players, is in a perpetual race to the bottom with little or no profit margin? You know, the personal computer industry? :-)
Apple will push the envelope with their new iptv HDTV's. they will also have the ability to access their cable channels if their cable company will cater to them and let them have no box. Apple is going to use this new tv to try to push set top boxes out the door
Which is what they said about a tablet that ran full OS X, the iPhone nano, and the xMac.
Just echoing the past.
As Steve has said, there is no "go to market solution" for Apple vis-a-vis TV.
I can't see Apple offering a large screen TV solution before they can develop a solution to deliver "live TV" to the iPad (maybe using ATV).
It is not a hardware, software or app problem -- rather a logistical problem -- working with or around the cable companies, broadcasters and the content owners.
Which is what they said about a tablet that ran full OS X, the iPhone nano...
The game aint over for those devices. My bet is we will see at least one of them this year.
An Apple HDTV is inevitable.
The game aint over for those devices. My bet is we will see at least one of them this year.
An Apple TV is inevitable.
OH LOOK IT'S OUT.
It was "inevitable" seven years ago, too.
Signed up on your site
Just wanted to give you some inside info about these tv's
They will offer a new IPTV service from Apple. This is what their new data and upcoming data farms are really for.
Apple will make it so easy to watch tv now and in the future.
Buy, unbox, plug into outlet, plug into ethernet and turn on. No more set top boxes!
When you turn on tv, Apple will offer you a new tv experience you will be able to subscribe too. All your favorite channels, on demand movies, live sports and great apps that you can select on a sidebar or overlay live picture.
It will be a game changer in the tv industry.
Yes it will, until the ISPs start taxing away any profit that Apple generates. There is no profit to be made in media and data streaming if you don't have your own network. Transmission is where the choke point is, that's the bridge at which every troll sets up his toll booth. Either the feds will have to regulate that massively or Apple takes some of its 70+ billions and uses that to set up its own exclusive ISP.
Rumor followed by skeptical, sarcastic responses. See above. This reminds me of something... wait a minute... wait a minute... There was this rumor in 2006 about an "i" thing that everybody was laughing at Apple about. Something about a mature, commoditized, cutthroat market that would eat Apple alive? Well, they're not laughing any more are they. And why did Apple remove "Computer" from its corporate name? Let me think about that one again.
Which is why every rumor about a possible Apple product must be true?
The fact that Apple sometimes makes things that people thought they wouldn't doesn't mean thinking they won't make something is evidence that they will.