An Apple television... meh...
A more advanced Apple TV (the box), yes!
Why not both?

An Apple television... meh...
A more advanced Apple TV (the box), yes!
In addition to the above, Apple must also address the global market in which people in different countries have very different methods (cable, on-the-air, etc.) to view TV programs.
Huh.....can I play Blu-ray on it with my blu-ray player????
Ask the A.C. Nielsen company and they'll tell you that's plenty to judge a whole nation's television habits.
The iPod vs. that awful passbook UI design.
'nuf said.
The best part is how these people say they'd be willing to pay over $1000 for an iTV, with absolutely no information about what it would do differently than their $600 tv (apart from having an apple logo and presumably thinner edges)
Right, except the iPad actually *is* better than pretty much any competing product and it had a year advantage over anything that came even close and with it Apple successfully defined a new category of products. The iPhone revolutionized smartphones.
But this? This is the most ridiculous analysis of a survey. No one is going to buy anything until they know what it is. Sure Apple *could* sell 13 million. They also *could* sell 100. Or they *could* sell 300 million.
All this survey really tells us is that people are really interested in what Apple can bring to the table. But of course we've known that forever so it's not exactly newsworthy. The only thing that makes it remotely interesting is this number "13 million" which is a wild stretch of a conclusion based on people saying they're "interested" in a product that hasn't even been announced. One to which most people can't even figure out what Apple will add to make them want it.
Basic statistics would have a polling of around 40% not 1500 people.
Actually, the numbers were pulled from a survey of 1,568 US households. It was only then that they were extrapolated from thin air.
(Note: My apologies that was supposed to say £25 not $25. But yes, obviously there are costs for additional addons such as a power cable (£0.20 MicroUSB cable) and such).
As someone who owns 4 Pi's (two 256mb and 2 512mb models) they CAN AND DO play both Airplay and Netflix perfectly fine. If your Pi isnt setup correctly then no, they wont. But if you install the official 'Raspbian' bundle, it reallocates spare RAM to the GPU, giving very good graphic performance.
I've had 1080p content running over the XBMC implementation of airplay perfectly fine, as have many others on the RPi forums.
There is bugger all tinkering involved if you go down the Raspbian route. Hell a number of retailers even sell the Pi, with the cables and SD card pre-loaded so you plug in and go.
Even if you do it manually, flashing to the SD card really is very simple, especially from a mac, but again - you can buy ready to go SD cards.
This is what i want apple to do:
1. make it beautiful. most flat screens are unattractive, with the exception of samsung's thin edge to edge tv. it's interesting that brian williams mentioned it.
2. no cables except for a power cord.
3. a full blown cable provider, with ala cart service. i get to watch any old tv show, and new programs become available when they air. I need to stream live content. this subscription can cost me a little more than a cable bill, thats fine.
4. full integration with icloud.
5. facetime, email, youtube, notes, calander, and other apps, etc.
-facetime alone will sell millions of tv's, to families with distant relatives, hip corporations (designers, architects, music/video people, rich exes). Remember that video conferencing has been possible for a long time, but it hasn't been easy to set up, and the hardware hasn't been ubiquitous enough. i find i'm doing it more and more on my phone. i do think it has a major place in the future. Tim Cook's Jetson's vision.
6. intuitive os. it can suggest shows i might like, and a great tv schedule that is easy to navigate.
7. i don't care about siri, unless it works flawlessly. otherwise it's awkward, frustrating, and it open's apple up to public criticism. s also don't need any gesturing.
8. a touch remote with a fingerprint sensor (or face recognition), so it knows who i am, and i don't have to log in to my account / setting / apps etc. interesting that apple recently bought a fingerprint sensor company.
9. a fast enough processor and enough memory in the tv to hold several accounts for all the members of a typical family.
10. something that i didn't know i can't live without.
This would be the most incredible product. It seems nearly impossible, but so did the iphone. Perhaps they should sell both a tv, and a set-top box.
The cost will be the price of a nice tv + the price of a mac mini. So $3000.
Apple could offset this with profits from content. But they love they're hardware profits. So my guess is $2800 for a 50" tv. And maybe just $700 for a box that you can connect to any tv.
The last major hurdle will be internet speeds, not sure how they'll solve that. Google is working on it in Kentucky with a fiber optic build out.
When will all this happen? I would bet its 5 years out. But Tim is already dropping hints, so who knows.
.....It would push the envelope toward satellite, cable, and telephone providers becoming utility connection types, not packaged content providers.....
.....The "content" part is the speculative part. That's what we want to see being revolutionised.
I have already spent good money on TV hardware. Give me a box with outstanding software and content options please.
.....The jerk pundits made the same arguments about Apple muscling in on "mature" markets like MP3 players, cell phones, and the then nonexistent tablet market. They were all wrong so I won't go predicting an Apple HDTV will be D.O.A.
Sorry if I am reading this wrongly, but I took it to mean that the overall market for these TVs is around 130m annually, so that the 11% the survey found would equate to about 13m.
I certainly hope they enter this market. I agree with what Tim Cook said about current TV technology.
Beautiful is relative, I guess.This is what i want apple to do:
1. make it beautiful. most flat screens are unattractive, with the exception of samsung's thin edge to edge tv. it's interesting that brian williams mentioned it.
It is difficult to imagine connecting all your devices wirelessly to a TV. You would have to use many sets of powerful transmitters/receivers to accomplish this and achieve reliable bandwidth comparable with HDMI cables. Wired connections in this case are a lot more feasible.2. no cables except for a power cord.
How does this differ from what we have now?3. a full blown cable provider, with ala cart service. i get to watch any old tv show, and new programs become available when they air. I need to stream live content. this subscription can cost me a little more than a cable bill, thats fine.
I guess that would only be useful for pictures, iClouds capacity isn't that much...4. full integration with icloud.
I can use Skype on my TV just fine and it's dead easy to set up (you just... log in).5. facetime, email, youtube, notes, calander, and other apps, etc.
-facetime alone will sell millions of tv's, to families with distant relatives, hip corporations (designers, architects, music/video people, rich exes). Remember that video conferencing has been possible for a long time, but it hasn't been easy to set up, and the hardware hasn't been ubiquitous enough. i find i'm doing it more and more on my phone. i do think it has a major place in the future. Tim Cook's Jetson's vision.
We do have that already. For instance, the BBC iPlayer has great UI.6. intuitive os. it can suggest shows i might like, and a great tv schedule that is easy to navigate.
What you need instead (and has been implemented already) is using your smartphone as a remote - it is already personal, and you don't need any silly fingerprint sensing business. And you have a second screen experience.8. a touch remote with a fingerprint sensor (or face recognition), so it knows who i am, and i don't have to log in to my account / setting / apps etc. interesting that apple recently bought a fingerprint sensor company.
This is extremely easy to achieve and has already been available for a long time.9. a fast enough processor and enough memory in the tv to hold several accounts for all the members of a typical family.
I just took a statistics class and was just taught that a sample size of 30 people can estimate what up to 30 million people will do. Since the population of America is about 300 million I guess an acceptable (scientific) sample size is anything above 300 people.
Edit: Sorry I meant to quote the person you quoted.
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Last week, Tim Cook shared that television was an area of "intense interest" for Apple, stoking the rumor mill once again that the company will come out with a TV at some point. Today, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty shared results from a proprietary survey of 1,568 U.S. heads of household from September. Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt shares some of the results of the survey.
Further, Huberty lays out three strategies for Apple to fix television. The company could become a "full-blown virtual cable service provider"; partner with existing pay-TV carriers and replace their set-top box with its own; or Apple could "bundle the TV set with its existing Apple TV" box.
Of course, there have been years of speculation about a potential Apple TV. Following the release of Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, in which Jobs said he had "cracked" television, rumors have taken on a more fervent tone.
Article Link: Apple Could Sell 13 Million Televisions According to Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty
It will be a huge win if they do it like they did with iTunes for music, where you just pay for the content you want to watch. TV ala carte, the way it should be, instead of the way cable is now where you're forced to pay for 150 channels for the ten you actually watch.
46% of respondents were willing to pay over $1,000 for an iTV and 10% were willing to pay over $2,000. On average, respondents were willing to pony up $1,060, a 20% premium over the the average $884 they paid for their current TV set.