No room in the living room for the Apple TV

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Not so long ago I expressed my views that the Apple TV was an extremely disappointing device which brought us nothing that we couldn’t really do already using non-Apple alternatives and did not innovate in any way.

At the point of writing the article I felt pretty confident that the Apple TV is not going to have major penetration into the living room with only true Apple enthusiasts taking it on board.

The San Francisco Chronicle also supports this argument by raising the point that people’s living rooms are already over-packed with consumer electronics and adding another one just isn’t appealing not to mention the number of established companies that Apple is competing with here.

Its my personal belief that an Apple TV type product will only really hit mainstream when it becomes integrated into a PVR, or with a games console, like has already been done with the successful Xbox 360.

[Via TVPredictions]

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Read more at: http://www.pvrwire.com/2007/01/23/no-room-in-the-living-room-for-the-apple-tv/.

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Not so long ago I expressed my views that the Apple TV was an extremely disappointing device which brought us nothing that we couldn’t really do already using non-Apple alternatives and did not innovate in any way.

At the point of writing the article I felt pretty confident that the Apple TV is not going to have major penetration into the living room with only true Apple enthusiasts taking it on board.

The San Francisco Chronicle also supports this argument by raising the point that people’s living rooms are already over-packed with consumer electronics and adding another one just isn’t appealing not to mention the number of established companies that Apple is competing with here.

Its my personal belief that an Apple TV type product will only really hit mainstream when it becomes integrated into a PVR, or with a games console, like has already been done with the successful Xbox 360.

[Via TVPredictions]

Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Read more at: http://www.pvrwire.com/2007/01/23/no-room-in-the-living-room-for-the-apple-tv/.

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