iOS 4 can go there, no doubt. And the lame-ass “web-enabled” HD-TVs shipping now are no competition for what Apple can do. The iPad may be the actual future of video content, but there will be room in the home for big screens for a long time. An Apple TV becomes the ideal blackboard, too, and the ideal game machine. Integrated with nearby iPhones and iPads, it can become everything we ever hoped to find in a package marked “entertainment center.” Really, truly, the television — the lowly, despised television — is the computer for the rest of us. This is a reinvention that Apple could do better than anyone…
Jeff Brown says:
Greg — I’m a bit confused. You wrote, “The iPad may be the actual future of video content, but there will be room in the home for big screens for a long time.”
Why on earth would anyone choose an iPad screen over an HDTV screen 20-30 square feet in size?
September 4, 2010 — 10:14 am
Greg Swann says:
> Why on earth would anyone choose an iPad screen over an HDTV screen 20-30 square feet in size?
Dood! I’ve got Netflix on my iPhone. Why do I want TV when I’ve got T-Rex?
September 4, 2010 — 10:40 am
Jeff Brown says:
I guess it’s a personal preference thing. Opting for a phone screen over a big screen, when there’s a choice, is alien to me. 🙂
September 4, 2010 — 10:53 am
Greg Swann says:
> I guess it’s a personal preference thing. Opting for a phone screen over a big screen, when there’s a choice, is alien to me.
This is an idea that runs through my mind all the time: How much would you pay to have the world your way? To the extent we are free to pursue our own values, each of us can have exactly what he wants and no one has to settle for second-best.
September 4, 2010 — 11:00 am
Greg Swann says:
Accounting for tastes: I really, really like to be alone, and I almost never watch sports on TV. Lately, almost all I watch are concert films. But I do like a big screen for movies — with all the rumbling audio — and this is why I think Jobs could make a great TV for geeks like me.
September 4, 2010 — 11:07 am
Jeff Brown says:
I get it now — makes sense. In fact, I can see having The Boss drive on trips while I’m watchin’ the game. 🙂
September 4, 2010 — 11:12 am
Greg Swann says:
> I can see having The Boss drive on trips while I’m watchin’ the game.
The best place for a big-screen TV is where your windshield is now. Highway driving will be all software-controlled before you know it. California can’t keep building more freeways, so someone is going to have to come up with a technology that can run a greater volume of cars on existing lanes. I like the idea of making the former windshield out of reinforced steel, too.
September 4, 2010 — 1:16 pm
Greg Dallaire says:
Greg your right about if anyone has the capability to dominate this marketplace it’s Apple. One month ago I would have told you like the majority of nayseers out there that Apple Sucked. Now I own an IMAC, Ipad and can say that I’ve seen the light. Now if they just get the Apple TV Rocking even more market share. Might be time to go buy some stock
September 4, 2010 — 6:37 am