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Logitech Acknowledges Google TV Set-Top Box a 'Big Mistake'
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No-one? Like the millions that watch every night and weekend? Seriously, step out of the twilight zone!
Why do you think I mentioned the 1984 ad? It was ran during the Super Bowl for a reason.
Talk to Tony Fadell. As soon as he catches up with the demand for his Nest Learning Thermostat, he can start working on your toaster the Nest Learning Toaster. Imagine the energy saving of a perfectly browned piece of toast vs one that is charred. It could tell the difference from a sliced bagel, wheat toast or even God forsake, a Pop-Tart. Dial your toasting time down until the green leaf shows on the screen. Under done toast, but hell, your electric bill is less. Take care!
I agree. Especially when they try to take on things that is already massively used by another company like Facebook (Google+ Fail), email (Google Buzz Fail), Skype (google voice fail), AppleTV (Google tv fail).
IMO the only thing google has going for it is its search engine and gmail email.
The difference is... Apple is a company full of creatives with a hunger for perfection. Google is a company full of brains and a hunger for competition. Google doesn't have the creative potential, the foresight or the ability to think outside the box.
That makes as much sense as saying that if you enjoy TV shows you should act in them or be in the studio. I like watching football with my cat and kitchen nearby. When I want to be live at a sport, I do a race. And that's frequent.
TV, the end game for Apple? If they can crack this market it would put them in an unprecedented position of power. From a user point of view the TV experience desperately needs a makeover and who better to do it than Apple?
You know I can't help but notice that these companies are just as stupid as fish. I honestly think they are so out of touch with society that they only think from their income bracket. Duh, people don't want to spend 300 figgen dollars on a setop box. Why didn't they take the hint from Apple with the Apple TV 1. Even it wasn't 300 dollars. And wasn't the Apple TV 2 out by then? Morons.
Meh, Google is doomed. Horrible products and no unity, like Microsoft trying to make consumer electronics.
$300 for a box that doesn't even have a coax input? I'm even dissatisfied with the Apple TV for not having an antenna input. They should add one, especially since the iTunes Store NO LONGER HAS TV SHOWS.
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The Apple TV doesn't even play TV shows...
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Gotta make my company and sell it to Google before they get smart!
Anything that competes with them is easy money.
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Toaster Strudel is actually better....
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My super-Google-fan friend wanted it until he found out about the box. I think he would have gotten it even for $150 though... What would you even watch on this, Youtube?
$300 for a box that doesn't even have a coax input? I'm even dissatisfied with the Apple TV for not having an antenna input. They should add one, especially since the iTunes Store NO LONGER HAS TV SHOWS.
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The Apple TV doesn't even play TV shows...
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Gotta make my company and sell it to Google before they get smart!
Anything that competes with them is easy money.
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What've you got against Pop-Tarts, huh?
Toaster Strudel is actually better....
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My super-Google-fan friend wanted it until he found out about the box. I think he would have gotten it even for $150 though... What would you even watch on this, Youtube?
This is incredibly short sighted of Logitech. What do they have to gain from taking a position like this? They're acting incredibly childish by simply trying to put the blame on someone else.
I, for one, am extremely happy with my Sony Google TV. I guess to compare with the Apple TV, this runs Android, so it will eventually be able to do most of the things my phone can do. One of those things is browse the web, which is pretty comfortable to do on it's 40 inch screen.
Also, as mentioned, it will support Android apps soon.
I feel like it mostly had poor marketing and most people simply were never shown some of it's best features, which is a shame. But I guess Logitech just wanted a scapegoat, God knows why.
I, for one, am extremely happy with my Sony Google TV. I guess to compare with the Apple TV, this runs Android, so it will eventually be able to do most of the things my phone can do. One of those things is browse the web, which is pretty comfortable to do on it's 40 inch screen.
Also, as mentioned, it will support Android apps soon.
I feel like it mostly had poor marketing and most people simply were never shown some of it's best features, which is a shame. But I guess Logitech just wanted a scapegoat, God knows why.
1) The Logitech Revue is $99, not $300. There is no need for a coaxial input since the Revue sits as a box between your cable set top box and TV...hence why there are HDMI In and HDMI Out ports on the back.
2) Again, the Revue is $99. And the last question shows your true ignorance on what Google TV actually IS.
Between my apple tv (+iPad2 AirPlay) & Roku I'm good to go. I was really close once to buying the Logitech revue. But I wasn't liking what I was reading about it.
Ummm, iTunes store does have tv shows. What are you talking about? They have season passes & individual shows.
Sad. Since the reason is for higher quality audio and video.
But I'm on the wrong forum for that topic.
GTV and AppleTV won't have much of a chance until the cable providers allow content to be viewed on the devices.
I ended up buying a Logitech Revue when it fell to $99. I installed the 3.1 beta and it's pretty impressive. The only thing that sucks is I can't watch shows because most companies have blocked the device. I thought about buying an Apple TV but the only feature that interests me is the airplay feature. It's basically an epic fail compared to GTV. How long has it been on the market again? Oh yeah, almost 5 years. No wonder it's so magical.
I ended up buying a Logitech Revue when it fell to $99. I installed the 3.1 beta and it's pretty impressive. The only thing that sucks is I can't watch shows because most companies have blocked the device. I thought about buying an Apple TV but the only feature that interests me is the airplay feature. It's basically an epic fail compared to GTV. How long has it been on the market again? Oh yeah, almost 5 years. No wonder it's so magical.
Microsoft has decent consumer products... The Xbox for one is fantastic. Zune was OK. Windows Mobile phones are cool, but a little too little too late.
So true - or even better if a 2-way CableCard standard is finally adopted, it doesn't matter which box you use provided you get the access card from the cable/satellite provider.
But that'll never happen until something like revolutionary comes along like what the iPhone did to the mobile market.
Isn't that only because Logitech is dumping the product and is eating the loss just to get rid of the stock? Using the same logic, the HP TouchPad is $99, not $500. This obviously isn't the right way to gauge the feasibility of a product since the product was clearly designed to be sold at a much higher retail price, not the firesale price.
I do not think anyone has cracked the market yet. Apple TV is way WAY to limited to have any hope of cracking into the market. It seems like no one has really figured it out yet.
I hope Google is able to crack in with buying Motorola and all the ins Motorola has in that market. They could get the TV deals and get the DVR part really going.
I looked at ATV, at GTV, at Roku. Too many stupid limitations, especially for the GTV's cost. I really wanted to like Roku, but they have some mindless issue with DivX and refuse to play it, so I plopped down <$200 for a Boxee Box and it works beautifully.