[IP] more on Apple's Jobs Introduces Apple TV Set-Top Box for Shar

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: David Price <david.price@envisional.com>
Date: January 9, 2007 3:16:05 PM EST
To: "dave@farber.net" <dave@farber.net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Apple's Jobs Introduces Apple TV Set-Top Box for Shar

This is a very poor offering unless you're a die-hard iTunes and
Quicktime user. No divx. No xvid. Will only play media that's within
iTunes. For $299, I think most people would be far better off with the
new Netgear EVA8000 that plays just about everything you can think of
from any directory at which you point it on any pc (or mac or linux with
smb).

The iPhone, on the other hand: shiny!



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> Subject: [IP] Apple's Jobs Introduces Apple TV Set-Top Box for Shar
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> Apple's Jobs Introduces Apple TV Set-Top Box for Sharing Files
> 2007-01-09 12:41 (New York)
>
>
> By Connie Guglielmo
>       Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive
> Officer Steven Jobs introduced Apple TV, a product that works as
> a set-top box and allows users to transfer digital video files,
> photos and music to their television.
>       The product, with a wireless connection and remote control,
> has an internal hard drive of 40 gigabytes, Jobs said today in a
> presentation to the Macworld Expo conference in San Francisco.
> Consumers can use the product to buy content from the company's
> iTunes online store, Jobs said.
>       Apple TV was released during Jobs's annual presentation at
> the event. While analysts and investors are anticipating Jobs
> will also announce a mobile phone based on the company's iPod
> digital music player, the TV product, initially named iTV, may
> generate more sales.
>       ``In terms of the digital home, iTV is a much more important
> product to Apple,'' Romeo Dator, fund manager of U.S. Global
> Investors Inc., said in an interview today from San Antonio. He
> helps manage $4.6 billion including Apple shares. ``People want
> ease of use and fewer devices.''
>       Shares of Cupertino, California-based Apple rose $2.18, or
> 2.6 percent, to $87.65 at 11:30 a.m. in Nasdaq Stock Market
> composite trading. They gained 18 percent last year after more
> than doubling in 2005.
>
>                                iPhone?
>
>       Analysts such as Keith Bachman at Banc of America Securities
> and Benjamin Reitzes at UBS AG said they are expecting that Jobs
> will introduce new software as well as the mobile-phone. Jobs may
> also unveil new iPods.
>       Bachman predicts Jobs will release an all-white phone with
> no keypad and two batteries, one for powering phone features and
> the other for music. Apple may start selling the device in March
> or early April and may sell as many as 4.9 million this year, New
> York-based Bachman said in a Jan. 5 report.
>       The company has sold more than 2 billion songs on its iTunes
> Web site, or more than 5 million a day, or 58 every second, Jobs
> said. The site has also sold more than 50 million television
> shows and 1.3 million movies, Jobs said.
>       The company today said it reached agreement with Viacom
> Inc.'s Paramount Pictures to sell movies on iTunes. The company
> will sell 250 million movies on the site, he said.
>       ``Zoolander,'' starring Ben Stiller, is among Paramount
> movies that will be sold in iTunes, Jobs said. He demonstrated
> sending the film from a computer to a TV.
>
> --With reporting by Karen Moskow and Tony Greco in New York.
> Editor: Moody
>
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