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DwightSchrute
Sep 23, 2006, 11:44 PM
I don't know how many of you actually watched the Sept. 12th keynote but I watched it and noticed that when he was talking about iTV he made a lot of refrences to "you big, flat-panel TV". This is probably meaningless but I wonder if it was a little hint that they are working on a "big, flat-panel TV".


Warbrain
Sep 23, 2006, 11:46 PM
I don't know how many of you actually watched the Sept. 12th keynote but I watched it and noticed that when he was talking about iTV he made a lot of refrences to "you big, flat-panel TV". This is probably meaningless but I wonder if it was a little hint that they are working on a "big, flat-panel TV".

Probably not. I'll just leave it at that. Apple won't dive into that market as it's pretty saturated.
iGary
Sep 23, 2006, 11:47 PM
It was a sales pitch - he was making people "feel" the experience he was trying to describe.
Koodauw
Sep 23, 2006, 11:49 PM
Others seem to think so (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060922.html)
dmw007
Sep 24, 2006, 12:03 AM
It was a sales pitch - he was making people "feel" the experience he was trying to describe.


I have to agree with iGary on this one. :)
Zwhaler
Sep 24, 2006, 01:13 PM
I don't know how many of you actually watched the Sept. 12th keynote but I watched it and noticed that when he was talking about iTV he made a lot of refrences to "you big, flat-panel TV". This is probably meaningless but I wonder if it was a little hint that they are working on a "big, flat-panel TV".

Yeah, I noticed that too. I kind of laughed because you could tell he wanted to say "flat TV" but accidently said "Big TV" so he kept having to squeeze the big flat Tv in there. Personally I don't think theyre working on one. I would like it though.
winterdude010
Sep 24, 2006, 01:17 PM
Well the 30" cinema display could count as a flat LCD TV if you hooked it up for those purposes. I don't think Apple has a place in the TV market.
DwightSchrute
Sep 24, 2006, 01:29 PM
Thanks for the link Koodauw, it was an interesting article.

Probably not. I'll just leave it at that. Apple won't dive into that market as it's pretty saturated.

This may be an apples to oranges comparison but Apple dove into the Intel/PC market which is pretty saturated and they're doing all right. I don't see any reason for them not to even try it. I'm sure there's enough people who would buy an Apple TV to make it profitable. In the worst case they don't make enough profit to continue them but I think a fair amount of people would buy them.