No, it sold a million after the first three months...
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/12/27/apple-confirms-one-million-apple-tvs-sold/
Thanks for the clarification. So it's sold at roughly the same pace.
No, it sold a million after the first three months...
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/12/27/apple-confirms-one-million-apple-tvs-sold/
Apple is also said to have been working on revolutionary Siri-powered voice input for interacting with the television.
Huh? Microsoft is already shipping something similar - how can it be "revolutionary" that Apple is rumoured to be looking at it?
The 360 works great for network video playback. And if you use Rivet (OSX) you can even stream your iTunes and iPhoto library to it. With that said, the 360 is a beast if only used for video playback.
As it burns through more electricity than a 1950's refrigerator....
Think you need to come back to 2011 mate and take a look at the latest 360's power usage
Wow, 4M is far more than I would have guessed.
We're a joint PS3/aTV family - for watching "stuff", aTV is the default choice.
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Current Xbox power supply: 115W.
Current aTV2 power supply: 6W.
20x difference.
Indeed.
If you go to the site they do not include the PS3 or 360 in the report... I knew something was up - Microsoft sold 800,000 360 just on black friday and 1.7 mill in the month of NOV.
I had an ATV2... but went back to my PS3 - I can save my videos right in the drive, watch Blurays, DVDs and stream all my music and videos from my mac mini to it via EYE Connect... wish it would get HBOGO like the 360 thou
guess if you only have 99 dollars an Apple TV is good enough
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Current Xbox power supply: 115W.
Current aTV2 power supply: 6W.
20x difference.
Who is buying this thing, really?
The TV show and movie selection is very poor and extremely overpriced. There is no DVD or Blu Ray playback, and anything you want to stream to it from your computer has to be in a specific format or it won't work. It doesn't stream TV shows from free online services like BBC iPlayer or ITV Player and it doesn't have Spotify integration.
Couple that with no support for 1080p and the purchased videos being extremely compressed and I'm confused. It might be cheap, but as the iFans seem to agree about Kindle Fire, buy cheap and you get less - it's certainly the case with Apple TV.
I can spend £100 on this or £150-200 on a PS3 or Xbox 360 - both of which do live TV as well.
Plus, there's voice recognition on Xbox that works very well too.
Q: Siri - why does Microsoft have voice control for video already, and Apple only has rumours of a potential future system based on a couple of vague references in the biography of the late turtle-necked overlord?
A: uh...uh...uh...uh... <brak> Please power off your Idevice and reboot!
Mostly kids own Xbox 360 and don't rent movies. Mom & Dad own Apple TV and rent movies. Mom & Dad do not turn on or want to turn on Xbox.
I have an ATV2 and I like it but I'm not thrilled about it. My reasons are:
1) Rentals are expensive! Be reasonable Apple. Give us Blockbuster prices.
2) The interface is clunky. Using with the remote is ok but many of us have iPod, iPhones, and iPads so improve the remote application so the ATV shows a representation of the ATV interface on the iDevice so you don't have to to keep looking from the iDevice to the TV.
3) Make the ATV smarter so it will play segmented shows automatically. My brother has an iPhone and says his iPhone can do this. Why not an ATV?
Microsoft doesn't have such a huge marketshare outside of the USA. I'm Canadian and I still think it's too big and requires way too much power for what it delivers. TheTV costs a lot less than the Xbox 360, is much smaller and fits neatly next to a television. And the interface of the
TV is much cleaner and a lot easier to understand and navigate than the one on the Xbox 360.
The Wii can also stream Netflix, and the installed base of Wii is much higher than Xbox. I'm also wondering if Microsoft is counting all the replaced Xbox 360 in their numbers.
Voice Commands vs Natural Speech
As well as a responses from a system with a personality I guess by reading your comment.
Also the fact that they're 2 completely different products may have something to do with it.
who in their right mind wants their neck tied to that?
Uhhhh-parently 32% of the set-top box market. And there's many more using iTunes that don't use Apple TV's.
Then close to a billion want to use windows, and >100% (comparatively) prefer the Xbox to the aTV. Further, does this STB-survey even include all STBs to begin with? Surely, there are more than 12M STB's out there today?