“The Apple TV is a very interesting device because it allows users to mirror their devices, play games, and even stream music to their existing television sets,” Kaled Ali writes for AppleTell.
“Over the past several weeks, the Apple TV has seen plenty of discounts from retailers, including a $75 offer from Apple for a refurbished unit,” Ali writes. “Most recently, Best Buy began offering a free Apple TV unit with the purchase of a 15″ Retina Macbook Pro, which means Apple may either be looking to refresh the device very soon or may be introducing the rumored television set.”
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Wishful thinking
This guy is a whacko writing nutty stuff.
Looking at the range of possibilities for a vastly improved product has to lead any rational person to see that TV as it exists now in the home market is 30 years behind the tech curve.
The question is not “IF” but “When a company will offer a tech leap for the ubiquitous TV.” Considering the number of TVs, which outnumber computers, it is easy to see that a mind boggling opportunity.
Who other than Apple is capable in $s, programming, hardware & network design to tackle this challenge?
I would not bet against Apple if I were you, BLN.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
If you “predict” it often enough….
Not if the clock digital, and in this case this writer is digital.
-yes, in May, May, May.
IF Apple launched a TV (which I am exceedingly dubious about), I doubt they would discontinue the standalone box. I have 3 Apple TV’s in the house and whilst all the screens are a few years old they not remotely at the point I would be thinking of upgrading with them. Perhaps if the offering was massively compelling I would do one, but it’s very unlikely. I just don’t see Apple getting content that would mean I could do without other services (SKY).
Apple doesn’t literally have to offer TVs in sizes from 12″ to 72″ to tap into the market from Kitchen to media room.
Apple has merely to be able to connect them all together and allow easy seamless integration of functions wherever people are in their house.
My guess is Apple will have a “Flagship” TV/Monitor, but that is for the sake of promotion and “flash” in their stores and advertising.
The flagship TV/Monitor in Apple Stores certainly won’t be a Samsung TV.
Let’s see: selling refurbished products at a discount means a new product is coming to replace it? Or, just maybe, it means that Apple feels it’s not morally right to sell a refurbished product at full price. Duh! This guy’s idea is idiotic. There simply is no connection whatsoever. He’s lucky I’m not his boss or I wouldn’t be any more (that is, he would no longer be working for me).
Yup. Apple always sells its refurbished products at a discount. Otherwise who in their right mind would buy a new product?
There will be no branded standalone television set.
I agree – I would lean more toward the “product refresh” including a new 802.11ac radio to work with those new Airport products.
The more I think about that recent article that said “iTV” was an APP not a TV set, much like iRadio is an APP and not a Radio, I think that’s probably where we’re headed. If true, I would hope that the “iTV” APP would be integrated into the AppleTV devices.
Unless there is something totally un-envisaged (and no one has suggested anything close so far) I agree that there is nothing to be gained as things stand with producing a TV set. If Samsung can hit Apple in phones and tablets I dread to think what it could do in TVs. I see TVs becoming relatively dumb in their own right with increasingly sophisticated add on boxes doing all the work. Its the way I use mine already, its just the limitations of the box and the way content is supplied thats the problem. Taking away sophistication from the TV itself would hit the likes of Samsung who cannot compete with the Apple’s box and its potential.
Apple only needs to break-wind in the supply chain and its all over the Mac sites – so what chance they are going to build this rumoured thing in secret.
Apple is dumping AppleTV maybe because everyone is deciding to buy that extremely capable $35 Chromecast device which the tech–pundits are claiming is to be replacing all AppleTVs. I mean, how can Apple possibly go up against a $35 USB dongle from Google. $35 means instant major market share for the Chromecast device.
At least according to CNET – the Chromecast is not “capable” and is still “well behind the Apple TV”.
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-media-receivers/google-chromecast/4505-6739_7-35823617.html
Hey, the Chromecast is $35. Cheap… Cheap…..Cheap. And it does very little except to connect your tv to the internet,,,,, sort of.
A lady bought two cheap Apples for 1300$. When she got them, inside were regular apples. 2 of them. Cheap is as cheap gets.
PS. “extremely capable”??? Would that make an AppleTV stupendously capable, or galacticly capable??? Seriously… extremely???? Read DED’s piece on the device.
And if you have a problem with your Apple… or your Blackberry…
The Brits humor is funny, I like it.
Nope. Not yet.
Most certainly a refresh on the horizon as well as a reaction to Chromecast.
So, you can only see one player in the field at a time? This is a big game with a big field.
Ok, the AppleTV is up grading. Why?
• The NEW Mac Pro that streams three 4K HDTV streams at a time ships soon.
• More of Apple’s BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARMS are ready to come on line.
• New iOS and OS X coming up soon with new features.
• The AppleTV’s WiFi and CPU needs to be upgraded to handle the above load at each HDTV and each 4K HDTV set in your home.
I think with the ios in the car announcement apple has shown us what their direction is, to use existing hardware with their interface and software.
And so, another year of endless hoopla about Apple TV. Give it a rest already.
Couldn’t agree more – Apple hasn’t even updated their EXISTING products in a year and they’re going to come out with a whole new game changing TV? Nonsense. Let’s just hope the iPhone 5S is a strong update of the iPhone 5. If they just bump the battery and camera and storage we’ll all be okay with it. Nobody will be excited about it but at least it’ll be something. They haven’t released anything new at all in a long long time. All these endless lists of what is “in the pipeline” have grown tiresome as nothing at all has been released. A TV? Are you kidding? The siftware for the AppleTV black box we all have now is where they are focusing their energies (even though, uh, the “new” software “update” does not work, so er, uh . . .).
I scrapped all 4 of my ATV’s in favor of Roku 3’s. Anyone that still owns those outdated ATV’s needs to look into Roku. My Roku has access to all my Macs including iPhoto, iTunes and movies thru an application called PLEX. This was initially the reason I didn’t make the switch because I needed access to my Mac content. With Plex, it works incredibly well. Plus, Roku adds new apps all the time and there is 100x more content than ATV. I love all things Apple, but they dropped the ball on the ATV. I even have a Samsung Smart TV which doesn’t compare to Roku. I have a Roku connected to the Smart TV also because it is so much better. Roku is king at this point. I’d like to see Apple tie into the iTunes store with games, apps etc., that might make a difference, but it’s doubtful they would at this point. PLEX even assigns metadata to all my movies where ATV did not. No comparison.