Interesting article on possible future Apple TV s

[Gator5000e]

This is purely speculation, as the author acknowledges, but it's interesting to read nonetheless. I'd be curious to see what comes to be, if anything.

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[w5jck]

Just another speculative article with nothing to report other than pure guesses and a greatly over-exaggerated view of Kuo and Gurman, both of which are wrong fairly often these days. Anyone can guess, and that is all that guy is doing.

My guess is that we won’t see an Apple TV dongle EVER. Apple is about premium, form over function hardware that costs way more than it should. Even if they released an Apple TV dongle, it would likely be priced well out of the range of competitive 4K dongles from Amazon and Roku. In short, it makes no sense given Apple’s track record that they would release an inexpensive, competitively priced device. Apple really doesn’t seem to care that much about its ATV 4K line, why would they care about a dongle? They are much more concerned about the money they can make off of the content they sell via TV+.

 

[bozzykid]

In short, it makes no sense given Apple’s track record that they would release an inexpensive, competitively priced device.

That was definitely true in the past. I think Apple TV+ changes things though. They clearly don't care about advancing the Apple TV hardware and OS but they do care about pushing Apple TV+. Using their own hardware to do this could become more important than in the past. At this point, the Apple TV hardware isn't really having any effect on the market, but a lower cost one could end up being important for Apple TV+'s future.

 

[HDFan]

Just another speculative article with nothing to report other than pure guesses

Agree. There's a post about not getting an iPhone 14 which seems irrelevant since we don't know what it will include.

and a greatly over-exaggerated view of Kuo and Gurman, both of which are wrong fairly often these days. Anyone can guess, and that is all that guy is doing.

Latest accuracy numbers on Kuo and Gurman are 72.5% and 86.5% accuracy respectively.

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