Apple Inc. “will delay until mid-March its Apple TV device for playing computer-based video on television sets, a spokeswoman said on Monday,” Reuters reports.
“‘Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected, and we now expect to begin shipments mid-March,’ spokeswoman Lynn Fox said by email,” Reuters reports.
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MacDailyNews Note: [UPDATED 9:15pm EST: Apple’s U.S. online store has bee updated to state, “Ships: Mid March” on the Apple TV page.
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Maybe we’ll never know what the problem is here, but I hope they don’t make too much of a habit of delaying things. Then again, its not like they’ll ever have a 5 year delay on any products
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Who knows, maybe we’ll get some added goodies as a result of the wait.
Better to ship it two weeks late without bugs.
My order status still says it will ship by Feb. 28.
Maybe the FCC had to approve the RDF tuner?
My order states: ships February 28. Arrive: March 6.
Who cares what your order dates say?
IT’S DELAYED!
Hmmm….is it delayed because of snags in manufacturing/logistics/marketing etc.? Or is that an excuse they’re giving because Apple TV would have given stark pointers to new integrated features in Leopard? Perhaps they’ve decided that it’s more in the company’s interest to launch it coincidentally with the new OS in order to maximize the impact (ie, embarrassing Microsoft) and cement in the public’s collective mind the notion that Leopard is a much more advanced system than Vista (“You’ve come to a sad realization. Cancel or allow?”). Interesting times indeed…
“Maybe the FCC had to approve the RDF tuner?”
I find it highly unlikely that anyone would ever have to wait on our government.
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Leopard?
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They’re not delaying it because of Leopard- so few people will even have Leopard even after it ships that it makes no sense. Apple TV HAS to be fully compatible with Tiger (if not also Jaguar). Maybe they need to update changes for these OSes and/or they found some bugs which needed to be fixed. In any case, as noted above, a 2 week delay is MUCH better than shipping a buggy device.
Oh, and d.,
You got first post. Whoop-te-fucking-do, your life is complete. Now where do I mail the bib and pacifier?
Goddamned “first post” fucktards *grumble grumble*
MacMan,
I certainly wasn’t suggesting that they’re delaying it because it’s functionality requires Leopard; far from it. It’s available for PC’s after all. I was merely postulating that perhaps some facet of it’s interface could be a pointer to what we can expect in Leopard.
I strongly believe that Apple is convinced that Leopard’s interface is so far ahead of Vista’s that they don’t want any hints about it to leak out until Leopard actually launches. Jobs wants to embarrass Microsoft by making Vista look like last century technology, and Apple could conceivably have delayed the release of Apple TV for maximum marketing impact.
After all, iPhone was like a punch to the solar plexus as far as it’s competitors were concerned. So powerful and totally unexpected that it was days before they could respond with weak FUD. I believe that even Apple was taken aback by the popular reaction to it. They’re probably hoping to replicate another such dinosaur-killer impact in the form of Leopard.
OH NO! Apple is delaying a product that they promised! Proof that they’ve become another Monopoly! Let’s load the boats and all move to Linux!
…wait a second, this happened before by Apple… and it all worked out… mebbe I’m over reacting, let me take my meds and I’ll get back to you.
I am not surprised. The pre-production unit that was demonstrated at MacWorld had not even been localized to the languages that Apple normally supports. That was a clear indication that there was still a lot of work to do on the software front.
DOOOOOMED! APPLE IS DOOOOOOMED! RUN FOR THE HILLS! REPENT! PRERENT! WOE IS ME! RUINED! OH! JUST KILL ME NOW! APPLE IS DOOOOMED!
I just chatted with an online Apple store expert and his response was that he didn’t have any information other than what is on the Apple store site.
What bothers me is that two weeks ago, there were rumors to this VERY effect starting online, and Apple actually made a public statement denying the rumors and claiming they definitely would ship Apple TV in February.
So… you’re telling me they had NO idea two weeks ago there would be a delay. They JUST discovered something that would prevent it from shipping, and now they’re gonna fix or manufacture ALL those pre-orders in the next 14 days? No Way.
I say bullshit. WHY doesn’t Apple just keep their mouths shut rather than just out-and-out lie about it. We’d have accepted the truth two weeks ago just as we can accept it now. Just don’t fscking lie about it already!
Maybe they read some of the earlier comments at MDN. Quite not the reception Apple expected.
The delay is not in the box itself, but in rental and 20th Century Fox negotiations.
It’s about the partners and what iTunes will deliver when AppleTV ships, along with the money gaming going on, not the box itself causing a delay.
It’s shipping mid-March. See
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My order status now says March 20 as a ship date.
Maybe they should call it Longhorn TV.
Apple needs to pull there heads out of their BUNS. Why not just announce products roll outs in the year 2010! Ha Ha Apple is starting to suck.
Mine just changed to shipped by March 20 delivered by March 26… bummer. Just as long as it gets delivered before the iPhone!