| rocketpig said: BTW, it's pretty widely known that the next market Apple is going to attack is the burgeoning "connected TV" market. They're already leading the connected set top box market with Apple TV and Steve Jobs mentioned that he had "cracked the TV problem" shortly before he died and spent his last weeks working on a strategy how to move forward after he was gone. |
At the same time, unlike the smart phone market the actual practical application of smart/connected TVs is almost non-existent beyond products like netflix ...
Think about it, you're sitting at home where you have a desktop or notebook computer, your smartphone is in your pocket and you (possibly) a tablet or LCD based ebook reader at hand what could Apple possibly offer through your TV that can not/is not offered on your game console, set-top box or media extender; or better delivered by one of the countless other devices you already have?
While almost everyone I know who owns a tablet has the same buyer’s remorse I have for (pretty much) the same reason, that it seems to be a device with compelling potential and no real use besides being an expensive portable media player/e-book reader, the connected TV doesn’t have this potential any more than a connected dishwasher does. And no matter how many iterations Apple will go through with Apple TV it will never be successful.
