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New Apple TV Allows App Installation, Needs Launcher
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There are already several SNES emulators for jailbroken iPhones.
Plex.
When new games start being more about original content, story, and gameplay than fancy graphics.
there are additional details from original atv hacking team - Awkwardtv here..
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/04/apple-tv-hacking-update-bluetooth-white-lists-ports-cables/#continued
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/10/04/apple-tv-hacking-update-bluetooth-white-lists-ports-cables/#continued
Pretty sure Apple will launch a ATV store soon.
All speculation leads to that.
Maybe they are just waiting for the best moment to strike and closing deals with content providers to create apps.
All speculation leads to that.
Maybe they are just waiting for the best moment to strike and closing deals with content providers to create apps.
the reason is that ios games are short-term fun games, most games get boring after minutes, the good ones maybe after days. You can't compare them to classic console games, that had a developing time of 2-3 years and a whole team of people worked hard for that. you have months of fun with such a game and you need months to finish such a game, they have a lot more deepness, I still enjoy playing sonic like 15 years ago. ios games need to go more in this direction. n64 emulator for atv and playing mario 64, the iphone as a controller would be epic.
This may actually be a strategic decision.
By launching the iPhone a year before it was opened up for apps, and waiting until there was a huge customer base of waiting millions, there was a greater land rush of developers for the iPhone than for any other mobile platform that opened up an SDK "on time". And the delayed land rush fed the app frenzy.
I'm willing to bet that the AppleTV interface/software is in fact an iOS "app"...
leave the app and you have the iOS home screen....
Why?
Getting excited over iads is a bit lame (though it does seem reasonable to get excited over having a better and more relevant ad medium in some free apps) but why shouldnt people get excited over a potentially significant change that will give an already great device a whole host of new functionality?
But you still have to keep*looking*at your"remote"instead of the tv.Why don't people see how unworkable this is for all but the simplest of games???
Imagine a simple touch(ipod touch) screen replacing your ps3/xbox remote.Now don't look at the remote and play a game.Game Over.
Cha-application?
Just want to state my prediction again:
Replace the word "App" with "Channel." Now you have an a-la-carte cable subscription service where networks can fully control their content, and cut the "middle man" out of the picture.
And if they can add a live-tv App, all bets are off.
If this does happen, we all better invest in companies like Akamai. Bandwidth will king!
Just want to state my prediction again:
Replace the word "App" with "Channel." Now you have an a-la-carte cable subscription service where networks can fully control their content, and cut the "middle man" out of the picture.
And if they can add a live-tv App, all bets are off.
If this does happen, we all better invest in companies like Akamai. Bandwidth will king!
Really??? You have to look at you hand when using the Remote app with your Apple TV? Most people are coordinated enough to just look at the TV.
Especially if the new TV targeted games give TV feedback on where the players fingers are hitting, punching, swiping, etc. users won't need to look down, any more than with an analog joystick.
Right now, Blind people manage to operate a lot of apps on their iPhone's by turning on Voice Over. So it's obvious that no looking is required for any app, not just games, when the app is properly designed for this setup.
This makes me glad I bought one. I already love Netflix and if you have Hulu+ apps and Podcast apps, the device would be a must-have for the masses, IMO!
I keep having the same thought. You need physical buttons to maintain your focus on the screen. Without buttons, you'd have to constantly look at the controller. Lots of people seem to overlook this problem.
I'd imagine that since the AppleTV is always on the Internet, your apps will either be stored in the cloud or on the hard drive of a networked computer. The device could pull the data from the app you're using to the tv's drive and then erase it a few minutes after you quit the app.
Meh... I knew about this since before the Apple TV got in anybody's hands. The VFDecrypt key was available a few days beforehand, and there are many hints in the filesystem that point to installable applications and a lot of FaceTime related stuff. What Steven did isn't any breaking news.
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I love the fact that this could be a great ps2 or other game console enimulator, but others were saying apple should just make ther own game console or make the appple tv one. The thing is that just think about it the apple tv will have apps eventually, and then games will be curing out like no tomorrow. But then there is the problem of an aduquate controller. after all of that there is one thing that apple already has and that is game center, and I believe if apple let's the games on the apple tv go too far then they will have to update game center to work more like xbox live. So what I'm trying to say is that if the games get too important the apple tv will end up being a gnaw console. The memory might not bee enuff for xbox like games but it could be awesome. I feel that games will either be played with the remote or use ur iPod/iPad/iPhone as a controller. But one thing I think is that apple will control there new devise jail breaking will get harder and apples updated will happen either very soon or slowly over time like they have done with all the other cool stuff they make
Not only do I think APple will make it customizable to some degree, but I anticipate seeing a very different UI when apps finally hit. Something much more iOS-like. I think they hadn't finished polishing it in time to include at launch, so they are taking their time and are preparing to wow everyone. I hope this doesn't take too long. I am ready now.