Comments on: So, Apple Has Officially Turned Its Back On the Apple TV, Right?

By: The Racket

The Racket — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:38:00 +0000

Geez Don, just use the thing. Is this really a going concern in your day-to-day?

By: Eleeflyguy43

Eleeflyguy43 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:21:00 +0000

dude, let up, the updated Apple TV was less than 9 months ago. give it a year before crying about it. just because Apple doesn’t civer EVERY DEVICE at every keynote, doesn’t mean that they are giving up on it.

By: jon

jon — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:50:00 +0000

send me your apple tv please

By: Ian Curtinsmith

Ian Curtinsmith — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:35:00 +0000

I seriously doubt Apple will kill off the Apple TV. I have been to multiple WWDC now and a long time ago all they talked for the entire week was their hardware and how to integrate it, the servers platform and security around the operating system. Fast forward and the last WWDC I did not even go to. They have shifted focus towards content distribution and making cool hardware that people want to put content on and take a 30% cut of all this content. It would be a huge shift from Apple to consider removing the Apple TV from it’s product line. I can’t see it dying if anything I can see it expanding into something else

By: rawryree

rawryree — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Geez, they just came out with a new one in March.. what more do you want?!

By: 1droidfan

1droidfan — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:50:00 +0000

Pretty typical of big companies. “Here is the greatest thing ever!!!” Oops it didnt take off and make us billions, it never existed and you are SOL if you bought it.

By: paulyhollywood

paulyhollywood — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:19:00 +0000

I appreciate your perspective and I think you. I hope the designers at Apple read your thoughts and proceed carefully with their plans for the Apple TV. I believe Apple would demonstrate more sound business sense with greater benefit to the consumer by keeping ATV as the conduit for our other devices we are more intimate with (iPhone, laptop, iPad…) to allow us to more effectively port our work on these beloved portables to our TVs, projectors and monitors rather than making the ATV box more powerful. I want my iPhone in my hand to interact with–I don’t want to interact with a black box under my TV. Looking to the future, I certainly don’t want to have to buy a television set manufactured by Apple to enjoy what the ATV does. I want to be able to use any TV, or a projector, with the benefits of ATV. Adding Apple to the list of TV manufacturers will make a nice addition to the market and Apple always raises the bar–I do look forward to that. But I hope I still have my little ATV, in some form, to choose my screen, size and manufacturer and I do hope to use my iPhone, iPad or Air as a controller for HD games on my big-screen monitor. I think that’s where Apple is headed and I really don’t think Google is ever going to grasp, or take interest in, the benefits of working seamlessly with my other Apple products.

By: David Hroncheck

David Hroncheck — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:39:00 +0000

I may be in the minority on this one but I like the AppleTV just for what it is right now. For less than $100 per room, working with my MacMini as a HTPC and all our media in iTunes/iPhoto shared library, AppleTV is a brilliant tool. Screen savers set to PhotoStream and AirPlay mirroring with remote control via iPhone and iPad. I don’t need MLB, WSJ, Netflix or Hulu…or AppleTV apps.

By: MikeG

MikeG — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:13:00 +0000

“if Apple doesn’t care, why should I?”. Seriously? Do you care only about what Apple tells you to? I don’t like leaving negative comments, but the reasoning in this article is flawed.

By: Steve 'Hairy' Palmer

Steve 'Hairy' Palmer — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:22:00 +0000

you are an idiot

By: me

me — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:22:00 +0000

negative nancy

By: Demonstr8r

Demonstr8r — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:53:00 +0000

Seriously? How short is your attention span? The 3rd generation of Apple TV was just launched 3 months ago, and yet you claim that Apple doesn’t care and has officially turned their backs on it. WTF? Do you write click bait much?

By: Briscoshorse

Briscoshorse — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:28:00 +0000

I know I was bummed too. It would be a game changer for an app store on that puppy!

By: Ronin

Ronin — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:38:00 +0000

just because of airplay Apple TV is surviving ,if not it is as utter shit product i dont understand why did i spend 100$ on it. expecting Google TV to support Airplay such that i could use Appletv like a hockey puck.

By: lesposen

lesposen — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:09:00 +0000

No iMacs mentioned either. There goes that product line! Please pass that tea cup; more tea leaves with which to predict the future of Apple.

By: Stocklone

Stocklone — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:45:00 +0000

The battle for the living room and no mention of Microsoft?

By: Leo

Leo — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:43:00 +0000

So you pretty well think or do whatever Apple tells you to, don’t you Don?

By: me987654

me987654 — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:20:00 +0000

Western Digital should release an android based version of the awesome WDTV. It would sell like hotcakes. The WDTV is AWESOME… it will play anything

By: Bobb_O

Bobb_O — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:12:00 +0000

“if Apple doesn’t care, why should I?”

I tend to not like the term iSheep but it’s the only thing that’s applicable there.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:05:00 +0000

I would agree with this, if Apple didn’t just release an updated Apple TV & UI less than 6 months ago.

By: spacem00se

spacem00se — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:04:00 +0000

Theres more 3rd party support for the jailbroken AppleTV (through XBMC or Plex), than there is for the non-broken one. Too many restrictions, too many walls, nobody but the largest corporations are going to write apps for this, even the POS GoogleTV are several steps ahead of Apple when it comes to TV Apps.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:47:00 +0000

The AppleTV was mentioned in the keynote when they talked about AirPlay Mirroring coming to Mountain Lion. I doubt they would go to the trouble of building and announcing a feature just to kill the required product.

By: snworf

snworf — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:42:00 +0000

How frustrating it must be to create stories on days when there isn’t any news worth reporting about… [SIGH] ;-)

By: PostitN0te

PostitN0te — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:31:00 +0000

Look for a TV .. if they ever play nice with Samsung you will see a screen trade market for a piece of the TV share in my opinion for the phone market. You don’t make more gadget babies without swapping gravy when you get that large in the market.