Comments on: Why AppleTV is more important than the iPhone

Comment on Why AppleTV is more important than the iPhone by: Andreas - News of the future

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:39:19 +0000

AppleTV and the IPhone go hand-in-hand. The keyword is: communcation! Once all the Apple-Devices communicate, Apple is ready to conquer your household!
Check out my blog-entries concerning this topic:
http://www.newsofthefuture.net/index.php?/archives/15-December-2,-2008-Smooth-music-transition-with-IPod-and-AppleTV.html
http://www.newsofthefuture.net/index.php?/archives/14-September-3,-2008-IPhone-is-a-remote-control.html

Comment on Why AppleTV is more important than the iPhone by: Justin C

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:56:48 +0000

You make great points. I love both devices, though I’m not sure I’ll ever own either one in the near future. Being a 360 owner already, I’ll probably stick to that system. It’s already by my plasma, and it’s already hooked up to the net.

As for the phone, being a cingular 8125 user I’m really interested in the iPhone has to offer. I’m not going to buy one in June, but when I break, or get sick of my current phone, I’ll consider the iPhone. Here are my reasons:
—I thought I’d use the 8125 for some web stuff. I don’t. If it’s not in WAP form it’s useless and takes forever. The iPhone looks to function much much better with the web, without the need for WAP pages. Having the internet with me all the time is pure geek love. I don’t even bother with my current phone.—Google Maps, I would have a mapping system with me all the time. That’s super cool.

The bad:—Price—Can you protect that thing? I’m sure there’s going to be plenty of cases for it. At least it doesn’t have sliding parts.—Closed system. I hear you can’t develop apps for it. Bummer. But maybe that’s a good thing, how many little dodads do you need to install on your phone anyway?—Keypad. I wish it was bigger, but I’ll have to play with it to see if it feels right.

As long as I can sink with all my email and read the internet that’s pretty cool.

TJ:
I saw Exchange Servers in the compatibility list in the Keynote. But I heard that it doesn’t sync with Outlook. Not sure about the last, that would be a negative for me, since I use Outlook at work and at home.

Comment on Why AppleTV is more important than the iPhone by: John Dowdell

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:35:51 +0000

You make a good case for this viewpoint, thanks.

I’d like to see a social layer of interactivity above all such video displays, where you can get others’ viewpoints on what you’re currently watching, without having to ask your buddy list to all buy the same hardware, or all use the same service provider.

jd/adobe

Comment on Why AppleTV is more important than the iPhone by: TJ

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:15:51 +0000

Let’s face it, the iPhone is just another phone. Yep, it’s got an awesome new interface, no denying it. Everything else about the iPhone is being done (with some minor exceptions that will be imitated shortly).

I think people also forget about Windows Media Center. It will be built into most versions of Windows with the Vista release. It’s a great system with a very intuitive interface (not as nicely designed as Apple’s stuff but that’s to be expected). Apple’s AppleTV interface is actually very reminiscent of WMC.

So, overall I don’t find any of this stuff that new or exciting. I certainly think it’s being way over hyped. And it just shows me that after all the talk people make about MS “stealing” ideas, Apple’s really not that far behind. Were Apple excels, without a doubt, is the design department, but the technology really isn’t anything new or different.

I’m hoping the iPhone syncs with Exchange, then it will be a very worthwhile investment for me.

Comment on Why AppleTV is more important than the iPhone by: John

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:06:14 +0000

I think the AppleTV looks very nice, however, my only and biggest gripe is that you are limited to the MP4 codec. If there was a way to make sure it could play DivX, AVI, etc, and future codecs, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Buying a Mac Mini would make more sense to me at this point.

Comment on Why AppleTV is more important than the iPhone by: Hanford

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:49:53 +0000

In the keynote Steve Jobs talked about how it can play trailers directly from the iTunes store. I don’t know if that means your Mac has to be on, but I can’t think of a reason why that would need to be the case.

It is definitely going to take Apple TV some time and some new features to build up momentum, but that was also the case with the iPod. I’ll be watching ….

Comment on Why AppleTV is more important than the iPhone by: John Wilker

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:31:11 +0000

Unless I’ve read everything wrong. AppleTV is connected not to the internet, but to your laptop or desktop. You can’t purchase a movie or TV show directly from iTunes (AppleTVs only source of content, none of which at the moment is HD), via AppleTV, but rather have to fire up your MacBook, buy the content, then transfer the content to AppleTV.

Indeed with only a 40gb HDD, it wouldn’t hold much content on it’s own anyways.

I agree the device is promising, but from what I’ve read about it, it seems that the only market it’s going to attract will be those who maybe don’t have cable or satellite and only buy content from iTunes to begin with, and can now watch that content on a TV screen.