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MacDailyNews: BusinessWeek: Tripling unit sales show Apple TV is more than just a hobby
AppleInsider: Analyst urges Apple to add cable box support to Apple TV
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0: Can Apple save Hollywood?
Cult of Mac: Analyst: Apple TV Cable Support Could Bring In $1B Per Year
MacBytes.com: Time for Apple TV to move past the hobby stage
BusinessWeek: Tripling unit sales show Apple TV is more than just a hobby
MacDailyNews —
... apps that will let you watch whatever you want from the Internet... That formula may be lurking inside the mind of an as yet unheard of software developer who's envisioned an application that will blow all our minds and make our TVs talk to the Internet in ways we can scarcely imagine. That person just needs a supportive partner to provide the hardware. There is no reason in my mind why that partner can't be Apple. It's time to get serious about this hobby." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Judge Bork" and "JES42" for the heads up.] ...
Analyst urges Apple to add cable box support to Apple TV
AppleInsider —
... average sale price of $300 per unit... given the increased functionality, the product could contribute roughly $1 billion in hardware revenues per year." Additionally, the analyst predicts, the new machine would drive adoption of other Apple products like Macs, iPods, and iPhones, giving customers seamless integration of their content whenever and wherever they choose, with the Apple TV serving as the media server at the center of it all. Elsewhere, BusinessWeek 's Arik Hesseldahl suggests Apple could follow the iPhone model and open up the Apple TV platform to third-party ...
Can Apple save Hollywood?
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... cable box), and Businessweek’s Arik Hesseldahl (who examined a variety of options earlier this week, including buying DVR-pioneer TiVo ( ...
Analyst: Apple TV Cable Support Could Bring In $1B Per Year
Cult of Mac —
... BusinessWeek suggested Wednesday Apple could create a media box along the same lines as the iPhone, allowing third-party apps to be sold enabling consumers watch a wide variety of programming. ...
Time for Apple TV to move past the hobby stage
MacBytes.com —
... says Apple TV 3.0 should add: itunes radio features, more alternative content, and an iTunes Store (and a SDK for interactive content). And Arik Hesseldahl of BusinessWeek thinks Apple should buy TiVo and/or turn the Apple TV into a DVR, open it up to movie rental services, open it up to online video (beyond YouTube) and “give programmers the software developers’ kit they need to make the device more flexible and useful.” All these are ideas worth considering. But something needs to be done. It’s time for the Apple TV to move out of Apple’s “hobby” classification and be ...
Why Does Everyone Heart Boxee? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... The buzz has been building for Boxee lately. Mainstream news outlets like The New York Times, BusinessWeek and NPR are getting hip to the little open-source media center that could quite possibly change the way you experience TV.
I first met Boxee CEO and co-founder Avner Ronen at a NewTeeVee meetup in New York roughly a year ago. At the time, I was contemplating buying an Apple TV. He politely shook his head and said I shouldn’t bother, that his company had something better in the works. ...


