Comments on: LIVE BLOGGING: Apple adds YouTube to AppleTV

By: The Perfect Apple for the Living Room - GigaOM

The Perfect Apple for the Living Room - GigaOM — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:51 +0000

[...] 1. Get iTunes into the home. Apple has the industry’s most successful entertainment delivery infrastructure, and Jobs has strong ties to the industry through Disney. But the company has failed to connect that infrastructure to consumers beyond iTunes and the iPhone. AppleTV is little more than an iTunes connector for televisions: Not enough TV to tackle Tivo, not enough mobile streaming to supplant Slingbox. Apple CEO Steve Jobs called it a “hobby.” [...]

By: Moving From Me To We.com » Blog Archive » When a Conference Audience Gets Ugly in Live Time

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:43:09 +0000

[...] the passive attendee is fast-passing. Live blogging just started recently, mainly at tech-centered conferences or unconferences. Audience twittering just started within the past 14 months or so. Yet the trend [...]

By: GigaOM Apple plots a DVD player for the broadband era «

GigaOM Apple plots a DVD player for the broadband era « — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:04:06 +0000

[...] dubbed Apple TV, as a “hobby” that the company was trying to figure out. He, then proceeded to outline his grand vision of turning the Apple TV into the DVD player of the Internet [...]

By: Hints About the Apple TV Business Model at GeekFun

Hints About the Apple TV Business Model at GeekFun — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:10:21 +0000

[...] c+ assembly cost of the AppleTV at $237. They note that Apple’s margins on their “little hobby,” are quite low, on the order of 20%, compared to the 30-50% Apple enjoys on other [...]

By: On Digital Media » Blog Archive » On Digital Media, Episode #37

On Digital Media » Blog Archive » On Digital Media, Episode #37 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:27:30 +0000

[...] Steve Jobs and Apple offer a glass of ice water to people in hell [...]

By: Arvinder Gujral

Arvinder Gujral — Thu, 31 May 2007 17:47:02 +0000

“I think the [mobile] Internet experience is bad. … [The] phone is not a great place to discover and browse large libraries. I think you have to sync it with your PC, anyway. Why not just buy [music] on a PC and sync it to your phone? ”
This is a definite short-sightedness on part of Steve Jobs. He sounds like Bill Gates in the 1980s on how much memory we need on a PC. In 5 years he will have to eat his words…err Apple :-)

By: GigaOM With success, a kinder, gentler Steve Jobs «

GigaOM With success, a kinder, gentler Steve Jobs « — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:42:00 +0000

[...] can’t over rule them. You can do that once or twice a year,” he told Mossberg in his chat with Walt Mossberg. (At this point, I muttered, something unprintable.) We all thought at Apple it was all Steve all [...]

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:15:50 +0000

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By: Jeremy David

Jeremy David — Thu, 31 May 2007 05:25:55 +0000

I still think an idea that would revolutionize the Apple TV would be a cable-USB cord that plugs into the back of the device and broadcasts the cable signal to a computer. Watch it thought iTunes? Some sort of TiVo features? It would be epic.

I certainly would buy one if it could do that.

By: Bosco Brand

Bosco Brand — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:25:39 +0000

I think this integration is a good move by Apple. With the current explosion in internet video and the steady growth of home broadband, it's a smart move to get the most recognizable name in internet video.

By: JoeShmoe

JoeShmoe — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:11:33 +0000

Om, Others, You guys genuinely think the announcement of Youtube on Apple TV is as big as its being made out? What about the pathetic quality of Youtube videos -- which would only look very distasteful when played on high end TVs and HDTVs?! How about the very cool tech called Surface from Microsoft being covered? Oh wait, I forgot that Om has gotten into favoritism a bit too much off-late!

PS: I genuinely do not have anything against Apple or anything for Microsoft, just an observation of an obvious bias here.

By: Meher

Meher — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:03:20 +0000

Oh Nooo!!!! Arghhh!!! Grumble Grumble… battery technology sucks!!! When can I get Mr. Fusion for my laptop?!

By: Flash Video on AppleTV? «

Flash Video on AppleTV? « — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:15:53 +0000

[...] Video on AppleTV? Apparently AppleTV can now stream YouTube content. Anyone know if this is via Flash video or [...]

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:01:27 +0000

I wonder why still no iTunes for Linux . . .

By: Joost and the Apple TV? at GeekFun

Joost and the Apple TV? at GeekFun — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:59:41 +0000

[...] What finally jogged my brain was this item from Om Malik’s live blogging of a talk by Steve Jobs at the D conference. Q: Why do you call AppleTV a hobby? A: What every body has tried is that coming from computer market, you think about getting content from your computer to your TV. I am not sure that is what consumers want. More we think about it, they are like peas. We think the content from the Internet is the real play. GigaOM LIVE BLOGGING: Apple adds YouTube to AppleTV « [...]

By: Marl Balou

Marl Balou — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:26:36 +0000

It is clear that the phone companies do not understand how to make the richer functional experience such as enabling internet connectivity via Wireless, Edge, GPRS, IrDa etc. simpler for the end user (ie beyond the standard phone functionality). It is hard to understand and setup internet connectivity on PDA phones or the “Smart Phones”. They require you to wade thru acronyms like “CSD line type”, “PAP & CHAP authentication” “NDISWAN” etc I have a Master’s in Computer Science and even my head starts reeling from this.

Steve Job’s characterization - “I think the Internet experience is bad. You get baby internet, mobile internet, or something bizzare.” is very true. I know a ton of folks who are holding off on upgrading their current phones and waiting to get the iPhone.