apple make a TV? sounds crazy to me but...

[samintx]

what do you think? sounds off the wall

http://seekingalpha.com/article/140383-i...urce=yahoo

[iaJim]

I'd want to buy one.

[AlphaDog]

I can see how it would be appealing to many people, so the idea might fly. I, however, wouldn't be in line to buy the first one to come out.

[SDGuy]

Why am I feeling deja vu?

[Doc]

No way. TVs are too difficult a market to enter into. Too many scenarios to design for. Everyone has different size/color/input/output/resolution needs.

Somebody has confused the next-generation Apple-TV set-top box with an actual television.

[john dough]

That market is cutthroat but it would not surprise me if that were to happen. I have worked with clients in the past who would buy ANYTHING Apple had on the high-end. There are people with deep pockets who will pay for anything. One client just bought a 52" LED TV for his house (I could not even guess what that cost - as he had to special-order it).

There are products, because of cost, that exist only on the boutique end, yet they sell well (albeit in small numbers). I remember seeing a friend's house in high school (1984, IIRC) where he had A/V equipment that was not even on the US market (his father was involved in that industry). At one party they had, he asked me to "watch" a drawer where his father kept his "prized" tonearms.

Apple TV sales would no way challenge Sony, Samsung, Sharp, etc., yet if they don't aim at saturation and had something the others did not offer, such as, built in AppleTV functionality (for one less box), they would sell well.

[mrlynn]

Wait a minute!

Take the big iMac off its stand, hang it on the wall, add a tuner, and it's already a TV. Add an optional lap desk (with built-in keyboard?), and you've got the computer, too.

Makes sense to me.


/Mr Lynn

[Rick-o]

A lot of people thought Apple would never enter the cell phone biz either, but look what happened.

[Doc]

mrlynn wrote:
Wait a minute!

Take the big iMac off its stand, hang it on the wall, add a tuner, and it's already a TV.

...A 24-incher with no room for the inputs people expect in a premium television.

Maybe for a kids room. Not for the living room.

[Doc]

Rick-o wrote:
A lot of people thought Apple would never enter the cell phone biz either, but look what happened.

There was demand for an Apple cell phone.