I think this is a little off but extremely amusing. Let me state I would buy a mac over a windows pc any day, I have several of both 4 windows machines , 5 macs , 2 of them notebooks the macs are less troublesome. AND most importantly I have more confidence if I install an update that it won't be taking away or limiting functionality based on some obscue law. Much easier to backout changes on a mac since its more unix based, and no dlls or registry's to work with.
I think somehow the appletv and iphone are part of the same overall business model, and sometime soon will see some kind of integration.
What I'm hoping for, is that slingmedia does somekind of deal with apple . Appletv looks great on my htc 6800. And would dearly love to see that on my new iphone.
I think You must carefully read between the lines in the statements by apple. No sdk, means no 3rd party apps... Not quite true.. No third party apps without apple developing them.
There have been pleanty of companies that work in cooperation, No SDK doesn NOT mean there's no api, just means it may only be available to apple programmers and companies that work directly with apple and maybe smart hackers. (it was only a few weeks before the original xbox 1 sdk was leaked) sdk's are software class libraries, no software company in its right mind with more than 1 or 2 developers works without first developing a class library of functions.
Do you see an appletv sdk.
All this is speculation on my part, but again I think it depends what model apple chooses to follow.
1) the sony/microsoft model, try unsuccessfully to block any homegrown software (psp)
2) The tivo model , Ignore homebrew and hacks unless they involve stealing service (it took awhile for tivo to release an sdk for anything)
Based on what seems to be happening with appletv I think it might be 2.
again everything here is just speculation, but I'm really tired of the apple bashing. This is a new market for apple and I can't blame them for taking it somewhat slowloy.
