"This is a story about devices: NPD figures that 10 percent of homes now have at least one Internet-enabled TV (though I bet that only a minority of them are actually plugged into the Web), and we're seeing a steady increase in the use of Web-video peripherals, like Blu-ray players, Apple TVs, Microsoft Xbox 360s.
And it's also about content: NPD says the most popular service for Web on TV viewers is Netflix, with 40 percent of connected TV watchers using the service."
The ad depicts a guy smashing an iPad by accident. The point being that that would be tremendously stupid. But Apple has control issues, as we all know. Article rightly points out that Blendtec's Will It Blend? series has generated a lot of attention for Apple by breaking their stuff.
AppleTV gunning for Xbox/GoogleTV as box of choice. I like the idea of a gesture/voice/apple remote system and the xbox controller/gesture/voice over google's giant remote approach.
rumors that apple is creating a streaming video serivce
-acquired lala then shortly shut it down thereafter, switching its resources over to video
-would coincide with the launch of the next apple tv
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