Apple relaunches Apple TV
- $99
- Movies, TV shows, and music.
- Both Ethernet and WiFi built in.
- HDMI for HD Video.
- No storage, all rentals, no purchases.
- Streaming video, no syncing.
- $4.99 for first run HD movies.
- 99 cent TV episode rentals.
- Netflix, YouTube, Flickr, ABC and Fox are available at launch
It’s like the Roku, but years later.
You also just witnessed the death of Roku, unless they drop their price-point by at least half.
This is the exact same Apple TV with Netflix tacked on. It offers little to nothing that isn’t available on most TVs, Blu Ray players, etc. being sold these days. It’s still $30-$40 more than a Roku.
I have an Apple TV. I have, more or less, a larger version of this Apple TV. Jobs knows this is a half-baked product. Remember, this is a man who never shies away from calling anything and everything the Best Thing Ever. What does it say about the product when they insist on calling it a hobby?
Even if you’re right, which I don’t 100% think you are, it accomplished what Jobs was hoping to accomplish. I didn’t own an AppleTV, because I didn’t want to buy and store everything, and I wasn’t going to pay $250+ for it.
Even if they improved ANYTHING, which they did (smaller footprint, iOS, A4 processor, to name a few) it’s now a MUCH better deal, AND you can still stream things from your other rigs, where storage is less of an issue.
The loudest naysayers I’ve heard so far have been owners of previous incarnations of the AppleTV.
