This guy really believes that Apple is making a HDTV.
Gene Munster, everyone’s favorite Apple analyst, spoke at Business Insider’s IGNITION Conference today in New York City. One of the topics Munster hit on was the Apple TV. For years, Munster has been one of the biggest proponents of Apple releasing a literal TV. His most recent prediction pushed the product’s announcement to the end of next year, while last year he predicted [Read More...]
Information about the fabled iTV has been bouncing around the rumor-mill for a few years now. Supposedly, Apple is going to build an HDTV that has a ton of cool features, such as Siri, FaceTime, iTunes Streaming, iCloud and the works. It’s a dream device. Like a big ass iPad you can mount on your wall to watch the series finale of Breaking Bad on.
The iTV was supposed to launch at some [Read More...]
Sometime in December. That’s Apple HDTV D-Day according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Munster in a research note published today believes Apple will unveil their HDTV in December, and ship it sometime next year. Munster expects the television to cost between $1,500, and $2,000 and range in size from 42 to 55 inches. CNET made the comment that Munster’s predicted price runs a premium compared to other televisions in the 42 to 55-inch space. However, [Read More...]
If the latest reports regarding Apple’s yet-to-be-confirmed forthcoming HDTV prove accurate, the still-mythical product could manifest on the assembly lines within the next eight to twelve weeks. The report comes from Peter Misek, Jefferies & Company’s senior Apple analyst, who recently traveled to Asia. In a new note issued to investors this week, Misek is predicting the full-on commercial production of the “iTV” to begin in late spring around May or June. But according to Fortune [Read More...]
Tim Cook spoke at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference and explained why Apple considers Apple TV a “hobby.” In terms of existing product, we sold just shy of 3 million Apple TVs in the past year. It’s very cool product and I can’t live without it. We sold 1.4 million last quarter. It’s clearly ramping, but the reality — the reason we call it a hobby — we don’t want to send a message [Read More...]
The Raspbery Pi project is a darling little exercise in ingenuity. It looks like a USB thumb drive, but instead of 2GB of flash, it’s a fully functional computer running Debian Linux, featuring a 700 MHz ARM 11 processor, 128 MB of RAM, a USB port, and an Ethernet port… all for just $ 35. Splendid, splendid geekiness. Hanging this from your car keys, you can literally get connected anywhere. But [Read More...]
As MMi reported this morning, it is now a foregone conclusion that Apple television sets will, indeed, arrive in the next year, most likely in the second or third fiscal quarter of 2012. And now we’re learning that Apple may bring customized channel lineups to this long-awaited but still mythical connected HDTV. On Wednesday, Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu shared with investors his belief that Internet-based content subscriptions with customized channel lineups will be unveiled right alongside the [Read More...]
According to a report today in The New York Times, Apple will all but certainly release a Siri-powered HDTV by 2013 – if not sooner. Sources close to Apple confirm that the TV is, indeed, coming. And it’s going to be pretty sweet, largely as a result of Apple giving the standard remote control the boot. “It’s the stuff of science fiction,” writes Nick Bilton of The New York Times. “You sit on your couch and rather than [Read More...]
For nearly three years we’ve heard rumblings about Apple’s supposed plans to create and launch connected-television models in the near future. Following reports last week that late Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed in his new biography that he had “cracked’ the formula for an integrated futuristic connected television set, talk has once again surfaced that Apple will soon roll out a branded HDTV. “I’d like to create an integrated television set,” Jobs told Walter Isaacson. “It [Read More...]
According to a new Bloomberg report, Apple may be preparing to license AirPlay video streaming technology to third party consumer-electronics companies later this year. This would be an unusual move for Apple, as they rarely license any of their technology or software to third parties. Currently, third party manufactures can license AirPlay to stream audio to their devices, but they are restricted from streaming video at this [Read More...]
