FYI, you wrote that.

Apple will have done extensive research into what TV’s consumers are lapping up at the moment and the trend for the the coming 1-2 years, surely 40-46″ TV’s are the core bulk of TV’s sold in this day and age. I’m sure it will still sell like hot cakes and change the TV game if it includes Siri and iCloud

But…

It’s not the screen size that will stop me buying, it will be the inflated price tag to competitors, I don’t need it to integrate with the iPhone I don’t have or Wirelessly stream media from the iMac I won’t be buying

I’ll be sticking with my LED Sammy TV, Sky HD+, my laptop with HDMI out and only 1 mortgage to pay! (although Sky could do something much more sexy and slick with the EPG), I prefer to have a more finite control over my setup rather than be dictated to by Apple

Unless it comes in at £699 of course then Apple can have my Soul!

That’s a lie. The Windows equivalents to the Macbook Pro are only a $100-$200 cheaper on average.

 FOXCONN… 

Foxconn manufactures LCD televisions and its major clients consist of: Sammy, Sony, LG Electronics and here’s a good one for Fanboy1974 Vizio. So as far as hardware goes, along with quality and price. Apple can compete plan and simple.

That’s just the hardware. 

Where apple takes over and kills the television game is by taking there current Apple TV and integrating it into the TV set and essentially making it another iOS capable device. With iCloud all your apps, movies, music, and Photos will automatically be on your iTV. Your iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, and Nano (limited functionality) become a TV remote and a game controller just by connecting via WiFi/Bluetooth. Apples’ software integration is what is going to put the Apple/i TV on the map along with Apples’ great marketing skills. People who are already in Apple’s ecosystem will eat this up and Fanboys probably stand in line to buy one. Apple and Siri are going to start taking over living rooms everywhere. But if Apple does produces its own TV line and can compete with  same prices (+/-) as Sammy and other Top Dogs, I dont see how it could fail.

Maybe you just had a negative experiences with a Mac or a Mac user.

sad.

IMO, if Apple don’t build screens for anything above 37″, it could be for a multitude of reasons, from too high production costs to complicated logistics. Additionally, I’m pretty sure that bigger screens aren’t what the market necessarily want at the minute, be it Apple or Samsung. If we take a look at the UK market where I’m based, sales show that people don’t invest in new tv sets like Samsung smart tvs. That’s because they bought their last ‘big’ screen too recently. The same article (that I couldn’t retrieve) showed that sales of smaller sets (24″/27″) were growing at a faster rate than sales of new bigger 3D sets, showing that consumers were rather investing for a second set for the kitchen or the bedroom, privileging more ubiquity in the house rather than a new set with tens of unconvincing smart apps (that Samsung badly markets btw).

Going back to price, I don’t think size will be the determining factor. I see rather a range split like what they did for MacBook and MacBook Pros. A 32″ screen in white or black plastic for the price of an iMac, and a 37″ in aluminum for the price of a MacBook Pro.

From a developer’s perspective, I am much more interested in the processing capability of the device and how it will integrate in the current iOS ecosystem. Fact is, Samsung Smart TVs can’t process anything close to what even a 3GS does, so forget about apps like games for instance. And until Apple can produce a so-called iTV where all (or at least a vast number of) the existing Apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod can be easily ported to it, there won’t be any possibility to expand their ecosystem and therefore no way they will launch a tv set. Better invest my R&D money into a more powerful Apple TV.

if in few years their will be a gadget that would have multiple roms and would be legally avalable like ios windows android etc in one gadget(ultimate phone). so it would be upto those companies which would make companies that should be debated about……………

now that was funny! 

To put it simple: REPORT-ON-STUFF-THAT-YOU-CAN-VERIFY-OR-PROVIDE-VERIFICATION-SOURCES
…otherwise your column lowers to a “fanboy-ranting-blog” level. Shame.

To elaborate on my original post, I disagree with any larger screen product that has such elaborate features burned into it as an all-in-one device.  For example, a PC built into a monitor.  Because, when you decide you want a bigger/better screen you’re stuck tossing the PC part as well or left feeling handcuffed to a monitor that’s been made into an over-complicated decision to upgrade.  Open, component based systems better serve consumers’ needs in our desire to upgrade [here read: resize].  Take the iOS out of the rumored TV and its just another TV on the market.  10 years ago this may have been a great idea but today technology advances way too fast to warrant this type of investment.  If Apple were to arrange subsidizing a TV product through content providers, I’d rethink my position.  But then again, when Google is already offering the Android OS for free for use in TVs to Vizio, Samsung, etc. there’s hardly a reason to get excited for anything from Apple.  Please do buy one yourself though and tell your friends/family to as well, thanks.

There is a misconception that Apple products are way overpriced but what a lot of people don’t realize is that Apple does a much better job of integrating it’s software with it’s hardware while doing a myriad of other little things that ultimately make the user experience much more enjoyable.  So while the primary specs can often be compared to cheaper non-apple products, actual performance and user experience is often much better.  Whether these little things are worth the price is debatable.

Furthermore, Apple products have a much greater resale value than just about any other tech product out there.  Case and point, the Iphone.  People complain how expensive it is, but I have gotten every single version of the phone each year, and have yet to pay a dime for a phone since the first model came out.  When a new model comes out, I sell my old iphone on ebay and use that money to buy the new one.  AT&T gives you a partial discount after a year, and it’s usually just enough so that the sale of the old iphone covers the cost of the new phone. No other phone holds it’s value like the iphone. Same goes for macbooks.  Used windows notebooks drop quickly in value, but the demand for used macbooks keeps prices at premium levels for a long time.

Truth is, Apple and others haven’t mastered the smart TV. They have think tanks that spend thousands of hours thinking of compelling technology to bring out a differentiated product. What those features are, we won’t know unless Apple reveals them during a keynote launch. Nobody knew about the iPad till it was within a few weeks of the announcement. They succeeded where others failed.
The first Apple TV was considered a failure, but its current incarnation holds the large market share of streaming devices. It didn’t blow up the TV streaming market like Apple had envisioned.
The chips are stacked against Apple on TVs, especially companies.like Sony are losing money on them. If Apple were to develop a TV, I’m sure that they will have something to make them compeling and not define them in the way consumers think of TVs today. Personally, if it tops out at 37″, it will not displace my home theater set unless it spits out gold coins.