Open up the AppleTv for app development and they'll fly of the shelves. Or not and only sell a few million. Your choice.
iLove my ATV
Q: Don't do hobbies to be hobbies -- do it to make something bigger?
A: We do it because we think it'll lead us somewhere. We'll see. 4 million isn't a small number and there are a lot of believers in it.
I know a lot will think this is stupid. Heck even I think it sounds far fetched, but does anyone else get the feeling that they might merge product lines here? The products I am talking about are the mythical iPanel and the iMac. I know it's far fetched, but i can't shake the feeling that this might be the case. Has there been any speculation regarding this so called iPanel and its possible release. If so, does that time frame match up with what some have been recently speculating about the iMac(meaning september or october release)?
I want a 27-30" matte screen and mac pro!!!! Enough of this ipod iphone ipad crap!
Why do i keep thinking they are gonna get rid of the iPod touch and replace it with a smaller iPad?
I think you could be on to something. OS X and iOS are slowly converging and I think Apple is slowly moving away from the Mac as a product targeted towards the mainstream.
I really like my Apple TV.
Hopefully Apple continues to progress the platform.
Apple really needs to be judged in a YoY capacity.
"...For the first time in a long time - I'm not remotely excited about what Apple has in store for the remainder of this year. Something isn't there - that once was... .
Nope, you're just realistic.
The big question I have now for Apple and the rest of the tech industry is: Where do we go from here? The "computer" has evolved from a room of vacuum tubes to a desktop to a laptop to a portable screen of varying sizes. What's the next step?
Agreed. I also love my atv but would love to see some more content. Who knows Tim Cook did have some meetings set up a while ago with some media execs didn't he?But it could be soooo much better!!! Eg Web browser, more tv channels! And maybe Apps???
Why don't they just try being open and do away with their era of secretive tactics. It's so stupid, it gets leaked no matter what so you might as well just announce what your planning yourself rather than having everyone hear it from your manufacturers in Asia. It would probably help their bottom line in the long run.
Oh no.. could it be that consumers other than the iLemmings have seen the light re Big Brother...
New iPhone will have the battery glued to the motherboard... the iSheep will come in droves to buy it....
Oh no.. could it be that consumers other than the iLemmings have seen the light re Big Brother...
New iPhone will have the battery glued to the motherboard... the iSheep will come in droves to buy it....
Apple, the worlds most valued company, grew 23% over one year, beating their own quarterly predication. That is only disappointing in a VERY specialized sense of the word.
Flood123 deleted his post, but I don't think it's far-fetched or ridiculous at all either. A couple of years ago I read an article on one of the tech websites that predicted a "three-screen" strategy, and it makes too much sense to ignore. The theory is that Apple is moving towards a convergence of hardware (and software to a degree) platforms so that ideally, a consumer would own a large screen (iTV), medium screen (iPad) and a small screen (iPhone). All would provide access to the same content, thus allowing you to consume or utilize the content anywhere you were with obvious tradeoffs of portability vs screen size. Most techies blow this off because they think it's ridiculous that they would get rid of Mac. I don't think Apple necessarily plans to get rid of the Mac, just that it would be marginalized. Most tech geeks just don't realize how much in the minority we are.I think you could be on to something. OS X and iOS are slowly converging and I think Apple is slowly moving away from the Mac as a product targeted towards the mainstream. The iPhone proved the technology, the iPad proved people would use a device that is more consumer electronic than computer in their day to day lives, and I think TV is the figuring out part of the UI piece of the puzzle of getting a very functional Apple device hung on our living room walls. That is not saying the Mac is going anywhere any time soon, I think the demand for a traditional desktop/laptop computer won't be gone for awhile, but I can see this being Apple's transition... Pulling the average home consumer away from a computer and to multiple devices that work together.
It blows my mind that in middle of all these othe electronic companies losing money hand over fist and the poor world economy, Apple beats its last year sales and people are disappointed...What?
I think that people are finally getting what Steve has been saying.
1. Get rid of the filesystem and you'll have more people "get it"
2. Get rid of multiple windowed environments and that too eases things
That being said I do not see iOS and OS X merging at anything other than the layers below the initial UI and GUI. There's really no need to merge them.
It blows my mind that in middle of all these othe electronic companies losing money hand over fist and the poor world economy, Apple beats its last year sales and people are disappointed...What?
Actually, to any software developer it is quite obvious that there is no convergence at all where it counts to end users, and that is in the user interface. Technologies are converging, which is beneficial to all the developers, but not the UI.
On the other hand, it seems that Microsoft got it just as wrong as you did when they start their copiers and produced Windows 8 - perfect convergence between desktop and tablet with the result that you can't use it on either
Hmm, I'm starting to worry a bit about Cook. He seems to be depending more on spreadsheets than a good understanding of the industry. Apple TV a hobby? Not enough numbers units moved? How about the fact that Apple TV is being used for AirPlay to support all kinds of uses (from iPads and iPhones, and soon from OSX boxes). He can't seriously believe that at this point it is only a hobby in the living room type device, can he?