Widgets - (Store Only) how Retro; Linux users are like WTF and Vista users finally can have a laugh!
Transparency +Dark Theme...Seriously WTF as a member of Gnome Looks Dark themes group seriously...Seriously though rock like its window compositing on linux in 2006...Again Vista Users are now very confused.
Safari(With Bing?) Mail improvements, More Lock in/Cloud(At a price). Single platform...slight at google, costly cloud applications, even with a few tweaks...like a clone of the awesomebar, and a nice payout from Bing, an updated engine...we have yet to see anything like Steve jobs prediction...no wonder he looks sad http://blog.urbanbohemian.com/... [urbanbohemian.com]
The only...only positive thing here is free upgrades
... see if the same strategy would work against the iPad.
iPad was only relevant in one country, and since then even with some distribution chain *wink* stock readjustments...the market is simply leaving Apple behind, who aren't even maintaining growth in a hyper-growth market. Competing with Apple in the tablet market is just stupid...Best just to leave Microsofts Surface part III to have a go. It isn't 2013 anymore.
*golf clap* How it must feel to be worse than even Apple at supporting OpenGL 4.x versions.
To be fair, blissfully ignorant, as I am incredibly happy with Intel graphics on linux. I would care if I was interested in the BSD License, with Apple failing to follow the spirit of the license...but then here is the real truth.
Here it is this year still performing faster on Apple hardware http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...,,,in the case of one 10year old engine 20 times faster.
Your troll comment only serves to exposes weak software...and its "short arms...deep pockets" open source mentality on its overpriced hardware...it is pretty though.
All that whining over OtherOS being removed and Geohot being prosecuted was Sony protecting their platform from piracy.
The reason for the removal of OtherOS was the (Risks? associated with the Other OS being outweighed!? by) the tax benefits imposed on importing consoles into the EU as computers being withdrawn. A feature available since the PS2.
I personally lament the loss of this feature. More so with the introduction of this generation of hardware which simply preform better as full computers not appliances and the massive strides GNU/Linux has made.
The worst of it is...is it became about "hating" on Sony, not a real campaign for more open devices or tax incentives to be so. The result is the Xbox One (Surface RT...iDevices etc etc)
The REAL reason the battle is finally over is because Jobs is gone
Really THIS got modded insightful. Its down to the whims of CEOs. Jobs died October 5, 2011...get over it.
This case ended like all cases of its kind do. The money; PR; time; strength of their case..some expensive advisers weighed up the pros and cons and decided to call it a draw. the fact that "Judge Richard Posner dismissed it in 2012 shortly before trial, saying neither company had sufficient evidence to prove its case" kind of points in that direction.
Apple doesn't make it hard. She just didn't follow instructions prior to selling her device and she hasn't followed instructions after selling her device to fix it. The hard part is pure fiction.
I find it constantly disappointing the repeated lie of "just works". The truth is this is only partially true even within Appleverse, there is no good reason why complicated workarounds are necessary. The fact that fruit lovers like yourself are prepared to defend, an anticompetitive move.
Personally I think this kind of bullshit is driving customers (like the one in the lawsuit) to android. You can only be abusive while your on top, and Apple peaked last year with market share; its devices are behind the competitors...they are the little overpriced phones, and they need to buy a headphone company to remain cool.
Wow. Nokisoft limited but *again* decreasing, earned share in western Europe by being the cheapest (its flagship *giggle* phones none existent) is now challenged with a real (I mean unsubsided mass marketed) great value smartphones. I hope Micro$oft the bully fails again with carriers and allows competition against the Android Platform (iOS exists only through the power of baby unicorn farts, and simply a different market). Seriously enough is enough, and Firefox fighting upwards with compelling dual sim technology burnt into the OS impresses with diverse western european cities. Maybe we will get that second ecosystem that everyone...sorry Micro$oft's Marketing is talking about.
... as much as I love my N900, it is sad to see that the writing was on the wall even before that particular device came out.
At the time of the N900 launch Apple had only 20% of the smartphone market and Android only 5%...Why couldn't Nokia with 45% of the market succeed(or even Microsoft with 8%)...perhaps ot wasn't Nokia that couldn't succeed it was something that sounds like plop.
I you look at the picture is the Moto G took 6% of the UK market in three months. What it does not say it that the phones it replaced where the cheap Windows phones which upto then had been carving a tiny niche in the market before then. No wonder Windows has become free and Nokia have started selling android.
The fact that Apple fanatics are clinging to past glories is not news. Show me a value phone...or even a watch. Otherwise just watch your market share continue to shrink.
I've heard people saying that Linux is something that nobody wants even for free. It's nice to see that Linux has finally caught up with Windows! Or the other way around. Whatever.
I don't think you really understand the irony...Microsoft *partners* are prepared to *pay* Microsoft to run Linux instead of windows.
“It’s not like Android’s free,” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive. “You do have to license patents.”
Minimum price agreements were widely used in the heyday of CDs. The practice was upheld by courts.
I noticed this gets modded up as fact...the truth is a little more interesting http://www.stereophile.com/new... this is an article from 2000 where the Big Five got in trouble with the Federal Trade Commission for "Minimum Advertised Pricing on CDs" where retailers were forbidden to *advertise* CDs below an established minimum. Unlike Apple they had heard of Sherman Antitrust Act
Amazon, using its monopoly power in ebooks, kept prices artificially low. When Apple entered the market, Amazon lost some of its monopoly power and publishers used this event to increase eBook prices across the board.
From http://www.justice.gov/atr/cas... Page 160 "Amazon screwed it up. It paid the wholesale price for some books, but started selling them below cost at $9.99. The publishers hated that — they thought it would trash their ability to sell hardcover books at $28. So before Apple even got on the scene, some booksellers were starting to withhold books from Amazon. So we told the publishers, “We’ll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want anyway.” But we also asked for a guarantee that if anybody else is selling the books cheaper than we are, then we can sell them at the lower price too. So they went to Amazon and said, “You’re going to sign an agency contract or we’re not going to give you the books.”"
There was no "pre-cartel" pricing. There was only Amazon selling at a loss to drive every other ebook store out of business. They failed to do that, though they have been successful at getting the courts to go after everyone else in retribution.
from http://www.justice.gov/atr/cas... "On January 27, Jobs launched the iPad. As part of a beautifully orchestrated presentation, he also introduced the iPad’s e-reader capability and the iBookstore. He proudly displayed the names and logos of each Publisher Defendant whose books would populate the iBookstore. To show the ease with which an iTunes customer could buy a book, standing in front of a giant screen displaying his own iPad’s screen, Jobs browsed through his iBooks “bookshelf,” clicked on the “store” button in the upper corner of his e-book shelf display, watched the shelf seamlessly flip to the iBookstore, and purchased one of Hachette’s NYT Bestsellers, Edward M. Kennedy’s memoir, True Compass, for $14.99. With one tap, the e-book was downloaded, and its cover appeared on Jobs’s bookshelf, ready to be opened and read.
When asked by a reporter later that day why people would pay $14.99 in the iBookstore to purchase an e-book that was selling at Amazon for $9.99, Jobs told a reporter, “Well, that won’t be the case.” When the reporter sought to clarify, “You mean you won’t be 14.99 or they won’t be 9.99?” Jobs paused, and with a knowing nod responded, “The price will be the same,” and explained that “Publishers are actually withholding their books from Amazon because they are not happy.” With that statement, Jobs acknowledged his understanding that the Publisher Defendants would now wrest control of pricing from Amazon and raise e-book prices, and that Apple would not have to face any competition from Amazon on price."
I have seen lots of these posts, and there is lots of presidents to back it up. Directx was just another thing that was propping up Microsoft resilient monopoly on the desktop... A shrinking market... with ever growing refresh cycles, and Is increasingly dwarfed by the overall computer market that is mainly android... Using directx especially as a platform exclusive could simply cause this market share to shrink faster... For the sake of a few early conversions to a later version of its OS; there are other ways to milk it's hostages. This is not the same market that had Steve jobs begging like a bitch with patents for Microsoft's pocket change while apple is on its knees. This is Microsoft the hardware and services company. The one that is prepared to bet it's future on sneaking in an app store and a hardware lock, behind the metro(where are the windows never mind the start button) interface. No wonder stream is pushing Linux.
I get a little bored with the defence that people hate something implying that they are somehow emotionally against something. Directx was another single platform Microsoft APIs. Through dominance and laziness like internet explorer it has thrown away it's lead. Hate it... hardly notice it... Love the massive growth if cross platform gaming since Microsoft dropped the ball... high fives all around. Welcome to competition.
Council Gyms are not just on the decline but over twice the cost of private ones, due to subsiding public sector employees, and the unemployed. How about the focus should be on something obvious; cheap; without lock-in(long contracts - single visits expensive) sporting/exercise activities for everyone.
Its clear that IE 10 and IE 11 improved on security.
Its not clear at all. In fact there is nothing in the article that suggests older versions being the problem. It is a disgrace how Microsoft treats its customers.
Vaporware is a term in the computer industry that describes a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually released nor officially cancelled.
The Apple smart watch is a rumor and speculation by people outside Apple. Apple might be working on a smart watch and may have been doing so for years, but Apple isn't going to announce it until it is ready for sale.
From your link "Vaporware is also a term sometimes used to describe events that are announced or predicted, never officially cancelled, but never intended to happen." it is the sentence after the one you quote. Never has a Username been so apt.
the Slashdot crowd still hasn't gotten over the shock of people preferring simplicity and portability over features.
Actually most have their music on their phones. I use https://play.google.com/store/... Vanilla Music on Android. In fact people everywhere are ditching their iPods for Android.
I'd probably rewrite that to say that people are ditching iPods for smartphones -- unless you have an agenda.
Nothing to do with an Agenda...Although the fact that you did not want to correct iPod to MP3 Player Market screams at your own. The reality is the MP3 Market was the iPod market...in the same way the smartphone market is the Android market.
The iPhone arrived late? What else was available in 2007 with a touch screen, browser, etc? I mean I don't like them any better than the next guy, but I'm interested to know what prior art you speak of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... browsers have been available on phones since at least 1994 ironically the first example given fro a mobile browser is the Apple Newton!? It suggests the first mobile phones was in 1996 with " Unwired Planet (later to become Openwave) put their "UP.Browser" on AT&T handsets" So beating Apple by 11 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... capacitive touch screen work began in 1965!? Hell the nintendo DS even have touchscreen back in 2004. In fact a whole host of companies where working on todays capacitive phone around that time...including samsung. In fact famously the iPhone looks eerily similar to a Sony Prototype. Although here is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... LG Prada which was on the market 6 months before the iPhone.
The original iPhone was a hell of a device, but was built on established technology.
As the previous AC said, it was just like the typical "First!" posting on any forum.
Ironically Apples smartwatch is still vaporware. the Galaxy Gear is out and selling; I suspect a better Galaxy Gear Revision will be out before Apple gets itself organized. Samsung have learned having prototypes in the back room causes them to be kicked around in the courts over a few design/interface patents, because Apple said "First!". I am not sure who will control the smartwatch market or even if there is one, but if there is Samsung are in a strong position to capitalize on it...Apple not so much.
the Slashdot crowd still hasn't gotten over the shock of people preferring simplicity and portability over features.
Actually most have their music on their phones. I use https://play.google.com/store/... Vanilla Music on Android. In fact people everywhere are ditching their iPods for Android.
Your writing is misleading - Xbox 360 sold maybe 80 million units up to and including last year, not last year. Big difference. And of course Apple TV is just at the beginning. But right now they are selling more than Xbox 360 every quarter, and have done for two years, and still increasing.
You are a fantasist; Sales of Apple TV (its 3rd Generation Product) over the last year has sold a (none too shabby) 6 Million units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.... Its in its 3rd Generation and has been on sale 2007. Its market is now threatened by (media) consoles (and yes the xbox sells better...as does the Playstation note I don't separate the revisions), Intelligent Blu-ray players, Streaming devices like the Roku and Android devices, and the Chromecast, and that is without mentioning the massive growth of smartTV and similar products.
Apple TV could have been Apples next device. It isn't...it wasn't...it will never be. In my mind it is Cooks second biggest failure. His first not spending its cash horde on some serious acquisitions.
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Widgets - (Store Only) how Retro; Linux users are like WTF and Vista users finally can have a laugh!
Transparency +Dark Theme...Seriously WTF as a member of Gnome Looks Dark themes group seriously...Seriously though rock like its window compositing on linux in 2006...Again Vista Users are now very confused.
Safari(With Bing?) Mail improvements, More Lock in/Cloud(At a price). Single platform...slight at google, costly cloud applications, even with a few tweaks...like a clone of the awesomebar, and a nice payout from Bing, an updated engine...we have yet to see anything like Steve jobs prediction...no wonder he looks sad http://blog.urbanbohemian.com/... [urbanbohemian.com]
The only...only positive thing here is free upgrades
... see if the same strategy would work against the iPad.
iPad was only relevant in one country, and since then even with some distribution chain *wink* stock readjustments...the market is simply leaving Apple behind, who aren't even maintaining growth in a hyper-growth market. Competing with Apple in the tablet market is just stupid...Best just to leave Microsofts Surface part III to have a go. It isn't 2013 anymore.
*golf clap* How it must feel to be worse than even Apple at supporting OpenGL 4.x versions.
To be fair, blissfully ignorant, as I am incredibly happy with Intel graphics on linux. I would care if I was interested in the BSD License, with Apple failing to follow the spirit of the license...but then here is the real truth.
Here is back last year when Linux outperformed Apple http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
Here it is this year still performing faster on Apple hardware http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p... ,,,in the case of one 10year old engine 20 times faster.
Your troll comment only serves to exposes weak software...and its "short arms...deep pockets" open source mentality on its overpriced hardware...it is pretty though.
All that whining over OtherOS being removed and Geohot being prosecuted was Sony protecting their platform from piracy.
The reason for the removal of OtherOS was the (Risks? associated with the Other OS being outweighed!? by) the tax benefits imposed on importing consoles into the EU as computers being withdrawn. A feature available since the PS2.
I personally lament the loss of this feature. More so with the introduction of this generation of hardware which simply preform better as full computers not appliances and the massive strides GNU/Linux has made.
The worst of it is...is it became about "hating" on Sony, not a real campaign for more open devices or tax incentives to be so. The result is the Xbox One (Surface RT...iDevices etc etc)
The REAL reason the battle is finally over is because Jobs is gone
Really THIS got modded insightful. Its down to the whims of CEOs. Jobs died October 5, 2011...get over it.
This case ended like all cases of its kind do. The money; PR; time; strength of their case..some expensive advisers weighed up the pros and cons and decided to call it a draw. the fact that "Judge Richard Posner dismissed it in 2012 shortly before trial, saying neither company had sufficient evidence to prove its case" kind of points in that direction.
Apple doesn't make it hard. She just didn't follow instructions prior to selling her device and she hasn't followed instructions after selling her device to fix it. The hard part is pure fiction.
I find it constantly disappointing the repeated lie of "just works". The truth is this is only partially true even within Appleverse, there is no good reason why complicated workarounds are necessary. The fact that fruit lovers like yourself are prepared to defend, an anticompetitive move.
Personally I think this kind of bullshit is driving customers (like the one in the lawsuit) to android. You can only be abusive while your on top, and Apple peaked last year with market share; its devices are behind the competitors...they are the little overpriced phones, and they need to buy a headphone company to remain cool.
Wow. Nokisoft limited but *again* decreasing, earned share in western Europe by being the cheapest (its flagship *giggle* phones none existent) is now challenged with a real (I mean unsubsided mass marketed) great value smartphones. I hope Micro$oft the bully fails again with carriers and allows competition against the Android Platform (iOS exists only through the power of baby unicorn farts, and simply a different market). Seriously enough is enough, and Firefox fighting upwards with compelling dual sim technology burnt into the OS impresses with diverse western european cities. Maybe we will get that second ecosystem that everyone...sorry Micro$oft's Marketing is talking about.
... as much as I love my N900, it is sad to see that the writing was on the wall even before that particular device came out.
At the time of the N900 launch Apple had only 20% of the smartphone market and Android only 5%...Why couldn't Nokia with 45% of the market succeed(or even Microsoft with 8%)...perhaps ot wasn't Nokia that couldn't succeed it was something that sounds like plop.
I you look at the picture is the Moto G took 6% of the UK market in three months. What it does not say it that the phones it replaced where the cheap Windows phones which upto then had been carving a tiny niche in the market before then. No wonder Windows has become free and Nokia have started selling android.
The fact that Apple fanatics are clinging to past glories is not news. Show me a value phone...or even a watch. Otherwise just watch your market share continue to shrink.
I've heard people saying that Linux is something that nobody wants even for free. It's nice to see that Linux has finally caught up with Windows! Or the other way around. Whatever.
I don't think you really understand the irony...Microsoft *partners* are prepared to *pay* Microsoft to run Linux instead of windows.
“It’s not like Android’s free,” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive. “You do have to license patents.”
FYI Apple is doing quite nicely too
Minimum price agreements were widely used in the heyday of CDs. The practice was upheld by courts.
I noticed this gets modded up as fact...the truth is a little more interesting http://www.stereophile.com/new... this is an article from 2000 where the Big Five got in trouble with the Federal Trade Commission for "Minimum Advertised Pricing on CDs" where retailers were forbidden to *advertise* CDs below an established minimum. Unlike Apple they had heard of Sherman Antitrust Act
Amazon, using its monopoly power in ebooks, kept prices artificially low. When Apple entered the market, Amazon lost some of its monopoly power and publishers used this event to increase eBook prices across the board.
From http://www.justice.gov/atr/cas... Page 160 "Amazon screwed it up. It paid the wholesale price for some books, but started selling them below cost at $9.99. The publishers hated that — they thought it would trash their ability to sell hardcover books at $28. So before Apple even got on the scene, some booksellers were starting to withhold books from Amazon. So we told the publishers, “We’ll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want anyway.” But we also asked for a guarantee that if anybody else is selling the books cheaper than we are, then we can sell them at the lower price too. So they went to Amazon and said, “You’re going to sign an agency contract or we’re not going to give you the books.”"
There was no "pre-cartel" pricing. There was only Amazon selling at a loss to drive every other ebook store out of business. They failed to do that, though they have been successful at getting the courts to go after everyone else in retribution.
from http://www.justice.gov/atr/cas... "On January 27, Jobs launched the iPad. As part of a beautifully orchestrated presentation, he also introduced the iPad’s e-reader capability and the iBookstore. He proudly displayed the names and logos of each Publisher Defendant whose books would populate the iBookstore. To show the ease with which an iTunes customer could buy a book, standing in front of a giant screen displaying his own iPad’s screen, Jobs browsed through his iBooks “bookshelf,” clicked on the “store” button in the upper corner of his e-book shelf display, watched the shelf seamlessly flip to the iBookstore, and purchased one of Hachette’s NYT Bestsellers, Edward M. Kennedy’s memoir, True Compass, for $14.99. With one tap, the e-book was downloaded, and its cover appeared on Jobs’s bookshelf, ready to be opened and read.
When asked by a reporter later that day why people would pay $14.99 in the iBookstore to purchase an e-book that was selling at Amazon for $9.99, Jobs told a reporter, “Well, that won’t be the case.” When the reporter sought to clarify, “You mean you won’t be 14.99 or they won’t be 9.99?” Jobs paused, and with a knowing nod responded, “The price will be the same,” and explained that “Publishers are actually withholding their books from Amazon because they are not happy.” With that statement, Jobs acknowledged his understanding that the Publisher Defendants would now wrest control of pricing from Amazon and raise e-book prices, and that Apple would not have to face any competition from Amazon on price."
I have seen lots of these posts, and there is lots of presidents to back it up. Directx was just another thing that was propping up Microsoft resilient monopoly on the desktop... A shrinking market... with ever growing refresh cycles, and Is increasingly dwarfed by the overall computer market that is mainly android... Using directx especially as a platform exclusive could simply cause this market share to shrink faster... For the sake of a few early conversions to a later version of its OS; there are other ways to milk it's hostages. This is not the same market that had Steve jobs begging like a bitch with patents for Microsoft's pocket change while apple is on its knees. This is Microsoft the hardware and services company. The one that is prepared to bet it's future on sneaking in an app store and a hardware lock, behind the metro(where are the windows never mind the start button) interface. No wonder stream is pushing Linux.
I get a little bored with the defence that people hate something implying that they are somehow emotionally against something. Directx was another single platform Microsoft APIs. Through dominance and laziness like internet explorer it has thrown away it's lead. Hate it... hardly notice it... Love the massive growth if cross platform gaming since Microsoft dropped the ball... high fives all around. Welcome to competition.
Council Gyms are not just on the decline but over twice the cost of private ones, due to subsiding public sector employees, and the unemployed. How about the focus should be on something obvious; cheap; without lock-in(long contracts - single visits expensive) sporting/exercise activities for everyone.
Its clear that IE 10 and IE 11 improved on security.
Its not clear at all. In fact there is nothing in the article that suggests older versions being the problem. It is a disgrace how Microsoft treats its customers.
Like something small, personal, visual, that can provide vibrations and video that is always on....Like a Smartphone.
Please look up what vaporware is.
Vaporware is a term in the computer industry that describes a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually released nor officially cancelled.
The Apple smart watch is a rumor and speculation by people outside Apple. Apple might be working on a smart watch and may have been doing so for years, but Apple isn't going to announce it until it is ready for sale.
From your link "Vaporware is also a term sometimes used to describe events that are announced or predicted, never officially cancelled, but never intended to happen." it is the sentence after the one you quote. Never has a Username been so apt.
the Slashdot crowd still hasn't gotten over the shock of people preferring simplicity and portability over features.
Actually most have their music on their phones. I use https://play.google.com/store/... Vanilla Music on Android. In fact people everywhere are ditching their iPods for Android.
I'd probably rewrite that to say that people are ditching iPods for smartphones -- unless you have an agenda.
Nothing to do with an Agenda...Although the fact that you did not want to correct iPod to MP3 Player Market screams at your own. The reality is the MP3 Market was the iPod market...in the same way the smartphone market is the Android market.
The iPhone arrived late? What else was available in 2007 with a touch screen, browser, etc? I mean I don't like them any better than the next guy, but I'm interested to know what prior art you speak of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... browsers have been available on phones since at least 1994 ironically the first example given fro a mobile browser is the Apple Newton!? It suggests the first mobile phones was in 1996 with " Unwired Planet (later to become Openwave) put their "UP.Browser" on AT&T handsets" So beating Apple by 11 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... capacitive touch screen work began in 1965!? Hell the nintendo DS even have touchscreen back in 2004. In fact a whole host of companies where working on todays capacitive phone around that time...including samsung. In fact famously the iPhone looks eerily similar to a Sony Prototype. Although here is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... LG Prada which was on the market 6 months before the iPhone.
The original iPhone was a hell of a device, but was built on established technology.
As the previous AC said, it was just like the typical "First!" posting on any forum.
Ironically Apples smartwatch is still vaporware. the Galaxy Gear is out and selling; I suspect a better Galaxy Gear Revision will be out before Apple gets itself organized. Samsung have learned having prototypes in the back room causes them to be kicked around in the courts over a few design/interface patents, because Apple said "First!". I am not sure who will control the smartwatch market or even if there is one, but if there is Samsung are in a strong position to capitalize on it...Apple not so much.
the Slashdot crowd still hasn't gotten over the shock of people preferring simplicity and portability over features.
Actually most have their music on their phones. I use https://play.google.com/store/... Vanilla Music on Android. In fact people everywhere are ditching their iPods for Android.
Your writing is misleading - Xbox 360 sold maybe 80 million units up to and including last year, not last year. Big difference. And of course Apple TV is just at the beginning. But right now they are selling more than Xbox 360 every quarter, and have done for two years, and still increasing.
You are a fantasist; Sales of Apple TV (its 3rd Generation Product) over the last year has sold a (none too shabby) 6 Million units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.... Its in its 3rd Generation and has been on sale 2007. Its market is now threatened by (media) consoles (and yes the xbox sells better...as does the Playstation note I don't separate the revisions), Intelligent Blu-ray players, Streaming devices like the Roku and Android devices, and the Chromecast, and that is without mentioning the massive growth of smartTV and similar products.
Apple TV could have been Apples next device. It isn't...it wasn't...it will never be. In my mind it is Cooks second biggest failure. His first not spending its cash horde on some serious acquisitions.
Or you can also state it as CmdrTaco's infamous quote about the iPod... "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
...and has been proved right. Android Phones have killed off the iPod market.