How many legs does Apple's chair have?

[Mr Skills]

I remember a while ago Steve Jobs talked about Apple being like a chair (or maybe table?) with 4 legs - Mac, iPhone, iPod and AppleTV.

At WWDC he pointedly used the same analogy, but this time showed a picture of a chair with only 3 legs - no mention of AppleTV.

Is Steve tacitly admitting that AppleTV is not going to be that big a part of the company?

 

[BoyBach]

I think it was because Apple had nothing TV related to talk about during the WWDC keynote.

 

[Hushbull]

I guess he might be tired of everyone already squatting on the AppleTV.
But it's so warm!

 

[iDAG]

The tv has yet to go mainstream in the consumer market. In fact, the whole product segment that the tv is in has not gone mainstream either. Until the tv becomes something that makes a good amount of money for Apple and it has taken off in the market, I don't see it as a fourth leg in the chair. I do hope on day it does though.

 

[jnc]

tv is a gutted, gimped Mac mini that was over before it begun.

 

[aethelbert]

Lately, I think that there's been too much focus on the damn iPhone. The chair has only one leg right now and it's about to tip over.

 

[zap2]

tv is a gutted, gimped Mac mini that was over before it begun.

You missed AppleTV 2.0?


I think right now, it has 3

iPod
iPhone
Mac

In time, it will move to

Mobile OS X(iPhone, iPod touch...and other iPods based on this OS, the standard iPod OS has numbered days)
Mac OS X

AppleTV doesn't look like its becoming as big as iPod/Mac/iPhone...although it is a good device.