Beyers writes, “Enter the so-called iTV, which was announced at the Worldwide Developer Conference in September, and due to ship this month as the newly dubbed Apple TV. ‘Was’ is the key word here.”
“On Monday, an Apple spokesperson told the Reuters news agency that the company would have to delay shipping of the product — which aims to wirelessly deliver downloaded videos, music, and photos from your computer to your TV — until mid-March,” Beyers writes.
Beyers writes, “Remember this when you next decide to mock Mr. Softy, Mac addicts.”
Full article here.
This has to be an attempt at satire because no one in their right mind would equate Apple’s 2-week shipping delay on a single product to Microsoft’s years of delays on multiple products, right?
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