Dude, we are all making assumptions here. I love how you believe your assumptions are correct and everyone else is wrong.
I never said my assumptions are correct. I just pointed out that some folks statements written as 'fact' are not and are just assumptions. And if one is going to write something in the tone of being fact, they better have the facts to back it up.
if someone gets mad because I pointed out that they don't know what they are talking about then that's on them, not me.
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We've been there a few pages ago and multiple people posted links to multiple reports showing a component-price of around $65. Parts only, no labour, no shipping, no marketing, no research, no licensing.
Even that information could be incorrect. That is generally based off service part pricing which might not have the same discounts that Apple could have gotten because they were ordering 100k's of a part. The truth is that the costs could be half or even a quarter of what these smaller batches cost. Who knows.
That said, I suspect that amount is more correct than those saying the parts only cost $5-10.
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Apple seems like they're really missing an opportunity to add AppleTV apps to the App Store, and let people purchase them to install on their AppleTV boxes. Rather than hacking one up to run Plex, you'd be able to just pay $5 or so and legally download Plex onto it (as I did with my GoogleTV), and then get updates pushed out automatically for you too.
They aren't doing this because they designed the Apple TV for a specific purpose and such things don't fit it. The audience they designed it for doesn't give a rat's turd about things like Plex and that audience is way bigger than the geeks that would want such things. Let them jailbreak it just like they jailbreak their iPhones and iPads. If they screw something up it's on them, they have no warranty with Apple. They know this, they are okay with it.
The only apps that really belong on the Apple TV are those connected to viewing tv and tv type content. Like Netflix, the sports apps etc. Those are the things they are focusing on. And the things more universally desired by the actual audience. Not everyone wants Twitter on their TV. Not everyone plays the same games etc. Those that do can Airplay Mirror.
The only real gripes are perhaps the exclusion of Hulu+ (but that's likely due to Hulu saying no), the regional restrictions on things like Netflix and the iTunes Store, the delayed inclusion of shows from certain nets (again their call not Apple) and the lack of complementary apps in other countries like the BBC player in the UK.
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But that doesn't mean people will always stream less than 8 gigs from their iTunes library.
If they are streaming from their iTunes library than it is likely via home sharing off the computer or via the whole 'iTunes in the Cloud' features. So they won't need to have more than 8GB of buffer to pull that off.
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I can vouch for the fact that even with with the iPad 3, AirPlay (particularly mirroring) is worse than it was with the ATV2.
Not a universal experience or opinion. This weekend at work we had no less than 7 meetings to go over the shots we were about to film, all of which were done via iPads and an Apple TV hooked to the trailer tv set and adhoc wifi. Worked great. No stuttering, no ghosting etc.
oh and not that anyone probably cares but all 7 stunts went off without a hitch and no injuries.
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