“As long as the software developer followed the rules, and they don’t get to the app store unless they do, [in iOS 5] airplay shows up in their interface without them having to change a thing,” Jeffrey Hellman writes for iCloudRules.
“Of course, you need an Apple TV to send the signal through to your TV screen,” Hellman writes. “And there you have the reason all those Apple branded television rumors are out there.”
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Hellman writes, “Everyone who owns an iPad after iOS 5 is released will want Apple TV. Many will buy the external version in the first 6 months. Many more will buy the built-in version when they go to upgrade their televisions.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We’ve been using iOS 5, iTunes 10.5, and Apple TV Software Beta and, already, we cannot imagine going without it. Our Apple TV units have never seen so much use; they’re giving our cable boxes a run for their money!
This is great and all except for the 800 pound gorilla in the room – live sports.
No offense but who cares about sports. I hate sports with a passion. I detest the way that “Pro’s” are treated. I abhor the industry as a whole. Bread and circuses. Modern day gladiators keeping the publics minds occupied while the world falls apart. I just don’t understand spectators. I can understand playing a game but not watching one. Get a life all you sportsfans. If you want to hero worship, go find a real hero like some one who has fought in a war. If I could get cable with espn I would. It sickens me.
That should have read “without” espn.
I love sports, but I have never considered any of the athletes to be a hero, nor do I worship them. Besides, it’s nice to get away from the world that is falling apart around us 🙂
I’m not against escapes per se but sitting on your butt watching overpaid “athletes” play a “game”? I’m just suggesting that playing a game is better than watching one.
I think you’re overlooking college sports.
@Cubert – College sports are just minor league Pro sports.
Think about it. There are no official minor leagues for pro football or basketball. That’s what college athletics have become.
The are minor leagues for baseball. That is why college baseball is not so big.
People play games. Everyone. Everything we do is some kind of game, whether you like it or not. So watching pro or college sports is letting us root for one side to win the game that we can’t play because we’re not good enough. It basically mirrors life in that you have winners and losers, team and individual accomplishments, great performances and horrible blunders.
Pretty obvious that you’re the guy I always stole the ball from playing basketball! Then you said “I’m taking my ball and going home”! Then I beat your sorry ass for being such a pussy. Ok sure, we know why you hate sports.
Sounds like you got older but never grew up.
too bad you bag his groceries now.
I’m with you. And I’m living in a country allegedly even more sports-mad than the US. New Zealand will son host the Rugby World Cup. I hope buddha can protect me.
Who wasn’t hugged enough as a baby???
Agreed.
If Karl Marx were alive today, he’d state that TV is the opiate of the masses, and televised sports are crack cocaine.
I hate sports too, but I’m much happier with people idolizing athletes than idolizing the scumbags who go to other countries and murder innocent men, women and children.
Afghanistan and Iraq didn’t attack us, we invaded them. Since when is invading justified because our president is insecure or because there is a criminal in the country? Afghanistan offered to turn bin laden over many times, but we invaded anyway.
Part of the reason our corrupt government gets away with these wars of aggression is the stupid americans who think that these dipshit racist kids going over to murder brown people are “defending america”.
I mean, how stupid do you have to be to fall for that bs?
You are a narrow-minded communist fag. To make a wide open statement like that shows total ignorance and lack any ability to make informed statements. The men and women are volunteers that make more sacrifices than you could ever dream of considering. These same people 200 plus years ensured you the right to make such sniveling, outrageous comments. The world isn’t perfect, and the government and military are often less so, but all the same you are not worthy of even existing in the same universe.
I actually think there is plenty of demand here even without the live sports component. Unlike Dakota, whose rant reminds me of similar drivel during the 60s, I enjoy sports very much. I enjoy watching my kids have fun playing sports, I enjoy the occasional pickup game and cycling, and I enjoy watching all sorts on TV, amateur and pro. I also love music, film, and reading, all of which are “escapes” (what, Dakota, you have no escapes from this fslling apart world? What a sniveling child you are). None of that changes the fact that iOS5 will have a very compelling element here.
Neither iOS5 nor ATV, whether in a standalone device or built in as a TV’s primary OS, has to replace all live content in order to succeed. I already have three different AppleTVs, and we enjoy them, even though they do not replace our cable subscription.
Dakota, gain some perspective.
Perhaps i failed to differentiate watching a loved one play a sport and watching “professional athletes” “play” a “game”. I can understand the former. And I’m not saying there isn’t demand for sports. There obviously is. And I’m not against escapes. I have plenty and I’m glad you have yours. I’m just saying it’s better to actively play a game than passively watch one. It saddens me that the American society is such that few will remember the names of those who died last week defending freedom, while the names of pro athletes with questionable ethics will remain in the public’s conscious indefinitely. How’s that for perspective? And at least I’m not stooping to name calling to prove my point. To quote a line from one of my favorite movies “go back to the 60’s!” at least until you can debate without name calling. (Name calling just makes you look immature.) And take your basketball playing buddy from the above post with you. Take him back in time with you and maybe you can both grow up this time.
Take your ball and go home.
Intelligent comment, not!.
That makes his score 0 for 2.
Watching sports can be very exciting and enjoyable. Do you watch a particular TV show and follow the characters? Sports is much the same, only it’s much better now with the DVR – you can but a 3 hour football game down to about 1 hr 20 min. by skipping all the commercials, etc. Not much different than watching “Lost” or “CSI” every week.
Some people are more competitive, some less. It’s about your genes and culture. Sports are an extension of urban life, both modern and ancient. The problem is that some people believe that life can only be lived successfully if you “beat” others and “win”. There is life outside of competition that brings success.
So if you’re someone like me who thinks all sports on TV is a gigantic waste of time and who resents that my cable subscription forces me to pay for sports shows, then this is a huge plus! Way to go, Apple!
Thanks Cubert for hijacking yet another news item with an off-topic discussion.
And yes, as you can see, a sports discussion is almost as good as a political one to make the normal MDN reader, who is trying to see some Mac news, turn away.
I fail to see the problem. My local bar is only a block
away and is sport crazy with 5 plasma TVs that show
every game being broadcast on cable.
Actually no to Apple TV for me .
It has no content for us in Asia .
It’s not about that Zulkifli, it’s about this:
The question is this.
I play a game on the iPhone and then switch to a big screen , the experience then will be less on the iPhone and defeats the purpose of portable gaming.
Apple might as well make integrate game console
Features into the apple
TV.
But then again using any controller is old school.
Controlling a game without any hardware on your person is the future . Using an iPad or iPod As a controller is just a throw back for me .
“Controlling a game without any hardware on your person is the future”
What, another Kinect fanboi? GTFO.
No but i recognize great technology when i see one.
In terms of discrete gaming, Apple has not the ability to fight against PS3 and Xbox.
As a consumer i do not expect great graphic on the Ipad and Iphone, nor do i expect to play 6 hrs of intensely graphical and immersive gaming on a portable device.
i would expect that from a discrete gaming unit.
Saying that, i love the idea of using our own body and be in the moment of any game.
it is great!!.
I am a consumer as we all are, we buy what is the best not middling.
That why i dumped all PC and switched to the MAC.
That is also why i wont buy an Apple TV.
Useless for us in Asia, no content and no need.
And the types of games which are and will continue (for the time being) to be served by game consoles are played by a stagnant group of people. There is virtually no room to expand the business for the console manufacturers, no matter what types of games they develop, it’s the same group of people who play them. That’s the problem, and Apple doesn’t seem to have any reason to go after that crowd.
In IOS 5 can it mirror to the desktop, sans Apple TV…say via Airport Extreme?
i was hoping they’d combine the appleTv with their express model in the least…
Same for most of Europe as well, pity…
Actually Zulkifli has the point here. I have most Apple products but i won’t buy AppleTV. it has least value here in Asia. I will buy it if only i can really watch TV with it
I too live in Asia (UAE in case you didn’t guess from my moniker). I just returned from the US and brought an ATV with me. I watch a LOT of content thanks to my VPN, which anybody can use to trick your device into thinking you’re in the USA, or anywhere. Oh, and for the record, the other half of my moniker is a sports reference. I have no doubt that Jobs and Co have not overlooked live sports content. Just wait… Read up on what PAC 12 commish Larry Scott has done with their new TV contract and how widely available he intends to make PAC12 sports (including Olympic sports — VERY popular in Asia.) And by available I mean medium as well as location. We’ll see…
I would’nt buy a iPad for TV, just like I would’nt buy a MacBook Pro for TV.
Bloodbath.
Not sure I would buy an Apple-branded TV. Depends on who they partner with for the TV components themselves (Samsung, LG, etc.) They’d almost have to do so.
Then again, I think there is more of a likelihood that AppleTV will be licensed to these TV manufacturers, in a matter that Airplay might be licensed. Just a thought.
Cmpletely agree. I am in the market for a new plasma right now, and the primary consideration is image quality. This is the one time I would like to see Apple license the iOS to other box makers, rather than get tied into a specific OEM. Every time I navigate my Oppo or my Viera or Denon, I wish I had an iOS menu. I would love an Apple box, but only if it excels at image quality in the top end of the market. Alternatively, though Apple knows how to build excellent displays, mostly in the LCD segment, I just can’t see them entering a market so obsessed with technical feature laundry lists.
I’m hoping HBO (and the like) see the writing on the wall and make their app independent of a cable provider subscription.
Console manufacturers are dinosaurs and their business model will be destroyed by this in the next few years.
I really admire apples ability to disrupt inefficient technologies and push the competition off their asses.
The writing is on the wall … The end of the console box is coming !!!
Remember what happened to the GPS device.
Ross, I got to disagree with you about the end of the GPS device. As a matter of fact, GPS is still one of those places that Google has handily beat Apple, navigation through the iPhone is a pain. I still use my TomTom GPS everywhere I go that requires navigation to get there.
Agreed. I still have a garmin standalone GPS and I love it.
I have an Android and the GPS is excellent, but the Garmin does one thing and it does that one thing well so I keep using it.
Apple’s implementation of maps sucks worse than Lindsay Lohan in court. It’s a confusing mess.
I love Lindsay Lohan, just saying.
I havent tried it since my iphone2.
Maps and latitude on android is damn nice. I only use it if i dont have my garmin however
I don’t watch tv. I might consider buying an Apple TV as a new piece of art. I’m certain the design would be beautiful.
Haven’t watched a TV show in years. Looks sweet though, if that’s your thing!
Asking “who cares about sports” is a little silly. That is very different from suggesting why you don’t like watching sports. No one forces you to watch sports.
What is your next statement, who likes pizza any more?
…TV
Not quite.
In the UK the BBC blocks the iPlayer App and streams from iPlayer webpages using Airplay, so you cannot stream from iOS device to Apple TV 2.
I can see other broadcasters doing the same, it’s all down to “rights management”.