More Evidence for Apple TV Apps?

[RobertMartens]

The Apple TV does have onboard storage; how big it is, we don't know yet. I'm thinking even if it was a 1GB flash storage; that would be more than enough.

If it can have 1 GB than it can have 32 GB or more
Flash keeps getting bigger and bigger

Whats the largest USB Thumb Drive that you've seen?


We are talking about apps not content, memory is NOT an issue.

 

[jamiek88]

In a lot of these responses people seem to be getting stuck on the idea of using an iPhone as a controller for some reason (you'd be looking at the screen ect) and I dont quite understand why people are having difficulty seeing the idea of using the Apple TV and iPhone as a games console?

Don't think of interacting with the iPhone as you do now, instead the iPhone could "show" a standard joypad so you would be controlling the game with the iphone but looking at the TV, or perhaps the screen isnt used at all and the iPhones accelerometers are used as you tilt the iPhone (driving games perhaps). More inventive developers could even go as far as using both the screen on the TV and the iPhone. Using the example of Driving again the TV would show the driving, iPhone would work as the controller and the iPhone screen could display switches/buttons/fuel levels/boost levels ect or even the rear view mirror. Or perhaps looking away from the screen could be made to be a big part of the game, for example a horror game where you would walk around but in order to open doors ect you would have to look down at the iPhone to do a puzzle, but youd have to keep looking at the TV to make sure no-one is sneaking up on you.

All these things would be possible, you just have to think outside the box and if apple really get behind it could really become game changing like the wii was (and the natal ect arent)

With the accelerometer and also the gyro really the iphone 4 should be able to be more accurate than a wii controller and bar.

 

[Mister Snitch]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)
My TV doesn't have an accelerometer
I bolted the TV to the Wall
TV screen is not a touch surface
46" is a bit big to tilt around for control, I might drop it

Just a few minor details, huh?

 

[BlueRevolution]

I don't understand why you wouldn't expect the Apple TV to run existing apps. Why not. There are a lot of game apps that would be a lot of fun on the big screen, so how is it any different from having an iPad and iTouch/Phone version. Plus, with the big screen, you'd have the option of eventually making this a full blown game console.

Multi-touch and console games will be so easy to control with this:

1. Games
2. Instant info (weather, stocks, sports scores, etc)
3. Social Media

You could have those things overlaying content / music that are currently playing. Think of Dashboard for your TV. People turn on CNN / ESPN / CNBC all the time to read the scrolling info / headlines / scores / stock quotes. Apps for a TV would be even better / customizable for the content you want.

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/plex/id383457673?mt=8

'Nuff said. The day Plex comes to the TV will be the day I walk out and buy one.

 

[r00fus]

This is for real

... but they can't just throw "normal" apps on there.

but the iOS developer community is very large now, so they could find quite a few people who are tired of competing on the iPhone and iPad platforms and get those devs into a new program.

Next up: Apps for Nano (it'd be an app capable wristwatch!).

 

[mutantteenager]

It must be that easy to make up your own job title and post it on the internet, but then who's going to believe you??

 

[ciaran00]

In our world apps engineering means interfacing with vendors or company-to-company relations.

I don't think Apple means Apps like App Store Apps.