roughlydrafted.com - 2/5/2009
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Steve Jobs’ Apple TV hobby, the box that brings iTunes content into the living room, is getting ready for its third revision. What will the company do to leverage the recent spurt of interest in the device and boost sales even further? Here’s what the company will ...
appleinsider.com - 2/11/2009
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appleinsider.com —
Apple is believed to be wrapping up a
new feature in iTunes 8 that will allow users...
to stream their iTunes video purchases directly from the company's servers for playback anywhere, anytime without eating up local storage.
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Apple prepping iTunes Replay on-demand video service
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appleinsider.com - 2/10/2009
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appleinsider.com —
Apple has set up an online survey to
find out more about how recent buyers of Apple...
TV make use of their box and what they do and don't like about it in an effort to improve the system.
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Apple survey to help shape future of Apple TV
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What Apple should and shouldn’t do with Apple TV 3.0
MacDailyNews —
... iTunes radio features • More alternative content • Add iTunes U content • Stream video feeds • Add an iTunes Store and an SDK for interactive content (casual games and apps) • Additional support for user created content (me.com email, contacts, and calendar on the big screen, navigated by Remote via iPhone/iPod touch) • Consider the controversial (partner with ad-supported Hulu and/or subscriber-supported Netflix?) There's much, much ,ore in the full article - recommended - here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Fred Mertz" and "JES42" for the heads up.] ...
Time for Apple TV to move past the hobby stage
MacBytes.com —
... is a driver in and of itself. Consumers want ubiquity between applications that they buy for their mobile handset at their TVs, set-top boxes, storage in their homes or in the cloud.° Computer-based video (YouTube, Hulu, and Facebook as examples of divergence in PC video), if desired, can be watched on the best IP-based monitor in the home, which in many cases is that very big screen, Plasma, DLP, LCD, and coming OLED television. And what of the Apple TV? Danel Eran Dilger of Roughly Drafted says Apple TV 3.0 should add: itunes radio features, more alternative content, and an ...
Apple survey to help shape future of Apple TV
AppleInsider —
... cited a report in RoughlyDrafted Magazine that recommended Apple open the box to third party developers similar to the iPhone App Store, offering an SDK for building mini games, interactive web widgets, and productivity apps tied into online services such as iWork.com, all navigated using a handheld iPhone or iPod touch. It also suggested improved promotion free content such as Internet radio, podcasts, and iTunes U.
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: QuickTime X
AppleInsider —
... not be that big of a deal, but Apple has lined up support from content delivery networks and already added HTTP Live Streaming to iPhone 3.0. That means there are already over 45 million mobile clients optimized to view HTTP Live Streaming videos; that installed base also happens to consume a plurality of the world's mobile web traffic. Add in new QuickTime X clients on the desktop and Apple has a ready-made dominant standing in mobile video streaming. Apple TV 3.0 What about Apple TV 3.0 ? There could be more information on that in the coming iPod event on September 9, but ...
iTunes in the living room? Really this time?
Apple Forums & iPhone Forums, Mods, Hacks, News, Themes, Downloads, and more! | ModMyi.com - 4,711,751,911 —
... Munster thinks the announcement will involve a DVR, which Dan Dilger from AppleInsider thinks would be a terrible idea. More interestingly, Munster has suggested a ...
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