The extra cost for a Apple premium product say a iPad for $499 vs a generic Andriod tablet for $299.
$200.00 more for top of the line vs garbage is a tax?
Get a job.
The extra cost for a Apple premium product say a iPad for $499 vs a generic Andriod tablet for $299.
Loewe is an excellent TV. That's actually a move towards the hyper-expensive Apple TV everyone is assuming will show up.
"German" isn't a race.
Fancy, expensive, and pretentious, yes. Reliable, not so much.
I can see it now:
An Apple television set that looks almost like a Loewe flat panel TV, but thinner (thanks to a Sharp-built AMOLED panel developed with money from Apple and Foxconn) and with an iSight camera on center top and using a touchscreen controller running off the lastest version of iOS. It'll be available in 42", 46" and 50" sizes.
But Sharp are often mentioned in relation to the Apple TV rumours, which probably points to IGZO. At least IGZO is a step forward in LCD technology, and would have a more reasonable price, and allow a high resolution so that the TV could double as a monitor.
... which is probably exactly what Apple would tell Loewe to say.Update: A Loewe company spokesman told German website Heise (via The Next Web) that the report has "absolutely nothing to it."
Keep in mind this report is from AppleInsider...
Last time we had an unconfirmed report from them, they claimed that Gabe Newell (of VALVe) met with Tim Cook... which didn't happen.
Remember: take all rumors with a grain of salt, and those from AppleInsider with two.
Update: A Loewe company spokesman told German website Heise (via The Next Web) that the report has “absolutely nothing to it.”
A thinner flat panel using Sharp's IGZO technology is possible, but has Sharp actually demonstrated they could build a 42" IGZO 1080p display??
Oh, no! You fed the troll!
Semantics. Please tell us what the correct term is for people who say that they do not like people from any nation. Most people would call that racism.
Since Foxconn is supposed to me manufacturing the TV using Sharp screens the only reason I could see Apple buying a manufacturer of TV's would be for the IP and transparent screen.
... which is probably exactly what Apple would tell Loewe to say.
It will run Mac OS X Löwe
Just wondering, If Ive was the designer of the TV, and foxconn was making it with sharp, what will buying Loewe exactly do for apple?
YIKES! That is one ugly TV/Monitor. Hopefully they don't go full aluminum for a TV. That would be hideous.
The only people I see buying an Apple TV are the loyal fanboys who will buy anything Apple. Just too many amazing TVs that people can buy without having to pay the so called "Apple Premium." And then on top of that, if Apple go with LCD, they've just admitted to not going for top of the line picture quality. Best PQ are plasmas, hands down. But even so, the industry is already moving on the the next thing, OLED. Samsung have just unveiled their first full 55 inch OLED production panel.
This.
There's nothing to Loewe worth buying. Sharp make perfectly adequate LCD panels in their Japanese plant, and Apple can design the interface and shell of the TV.
It's not like there's some amazing technical knowledge of receiving digital TV signal that only an established player like Loewe would know.
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There's a lot wrong about TVs at the moment, and there's plenty of room for Apple to come in and fix things.
In the US market, I'm not sure how they'd actually achieve that, with the dominance of cable, their ugly boxes and their ****ing awful interfaces.
Samsung make an average LCD panel and put it in the smallest possible enclosure. Fantastic, but they're not actually solving any problems. How do you approach the fact that, for instance, 576i content is still overwhelmingly dominant, and looks like utter crap on a 1080P screen?
These are the kinds of problems Apple could try and solve.
What is so hard about the concept of an Apple TV.
The main device right now is really your set top box..and most of the interfaces and UI design of these things are horrible. Searching for shows, what's on, etc is still not that well done.
An Apple TV would most likely have an 7" iPad for it's interface. You'd use it to navigate either via Siri or standard swipe interface set up for the TV. The TV probably would have some sort of 'removable' brain slot that you could upgrade every few years if you wanted (like from an A6 to say A8 chip). It would play iOS games and other Apps. It would have a built in camera.
All interaction though would be from your couch via the iPad like remote and Siri. You could either say "Siri, show me 'The Big Bang Theory' and it would show you current run times, re-runs, on-demand, and so on. There would most likely be new Apps just for the TV along with even possibly new games and such.
It's coming. And I think the rest of the entertainment industry is excite and also scared. Samsung's joke of a interactive TV where you have to stand in front of it and wave your hand is just ridiculous. These guys still 'don't get it'.
Siri was always meant for the APPLE TV. It is just being tested via the iPhone. I
Terrible idea. Germans are notorious for the poor quality of the products they manufacture.