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Going mobile
With his usual rock 'n' roll swagger, Steve Jobs introduced Apple's new iPhone. But is the $500 phone more than another cell job?
By Farhad Manjoo [2007-01-10]

  • Apple TV = joke

    Mr. Manjoo seems to have taken a healthy swig of the Kool-Aid (or stuck his head too far into the Jobs Reality Distortion Field) when he states "Everything that's on your computer can now be played on your TV, while you're sitting at your couch, using a nice Apple remote."

    Huh.

    Per Apple (http://www.apple.com/appletv/), "Apple TV puts your iTunes library — movies, TV shows, music, and podcasts — plus movie trailers from Apple.com on your TV."

    That sure as hell doesn't sound like 'everything on your computer' unless you are only referring to Mac users who only use iTunes for their media files. That probably covers 1/2 of 1% of all computer users. AppleTV sounds like a complete waste of time until Jobs and company offer a PVR solution that has equivalent functionality to SageTV or Windows Media Center (or heck, even the Xbox 360 if you can stand the heat and noise). Once they have that, will it be more elegant than other solutions? Probably. Will it be too late to the party? Almost certainly.

    p.s. Is Mr. Manjoo going to talk about any other CES announcements (Windows Home Server springs to mind, as does the announced 1TB hard drives from Hitachi and Motorola's MOTORIZR Z6 phone - all of which are more interesting for a variety of reasons than the iPhone or AppleTV), or is he just going to provide free press for Apple?

    -- crunchette
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    Tuesday, January 9, 2007 11:02 PM
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