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Apple TV Already Being Hacked

Posted by kdawson on from the let-me-at-it dept.

TunesBoy writes "Only a couple of days after being shipped, the Apple TV is already being modified in a variety of ways. A thread at Something Awful discusses installing VLC, and a dedicated site, AppleTVHacks.net, has appeared and is cataloging hacks including a hard-drive upgrade tutorial. Did Apple intend for the Apple TV to be so easy to upgrade and hack?"

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  1. LOL:The Mac Demographic by malevolentjelly · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We can't all live artsy iLives, I suppose. Looks like a stream of photographs of trust-fund riding scenesters. Is this supposed to intimidate me?

    In my experience, mac users are generally just obnoxious non-technical types who've taken on a vogue bastardized form of tech-evangelism. They don't think, they don't tinker- they're web designers (appearance, no functionality), livejournal trash (psych drugs and tears), blog journalists (all voice and appearance), and digital artists ("I didn't know adobe made products for windows!")

    These people are all very impressive, but I'm pretty sure the guys who write their model/artist paychecks (so they can buy shrooms and go to ironic dive-bars) are using Windows. :P

    At the core, they're buying slightly outdated hardware with a smooth, unix/NeXT based OS with a larger marketing budget than field of vision.