Apple planning additional Apple TV models?
There has been a great deal of fanfare, complaint and uproar over the Apple TV hard drive being only 40GB. Given the size of video content, and that Apple offer an iPod with an 80GB drive, it does seem rather strange.
Well, that’s because Apple seem to be planning additional models for the Apple TV. Keen eyed reader, eirikso, noticed that the Apple Store presents the Apple TV in the same manner as products that have multiple versions.
Lets examine the evidence, first up, the Apple Airport Extrene, a product with only one model:
The page uses a particular format, and it is used by other ’single model products, such as the Mighty Mouse, Airport Extreme Card and others.
Now, let us examine a product that has various models, in this case the Mac mini:
This ‘multi model’ product page uses a distintive format, which is also used by other products with various models, including the MacBook and the iPod.
So, now let us look at the Apple TV page on the Apple Store:
It is using the same format used by other products that have multiple different formats. Is this a mistake on Apple’s behalf, or is it a clue to the fact that Apple are planning to release additional Apple TV models?
An interesting point to note is the Mac Pro also currently has only a single model (though it is configurable), and it too uses the format for products with multiple models, and we know it is likely that Apple will announce more models for the Mac Pro.
It certainly looks like Apple are planning to release some variations, which raises the question: What will be different? Black Apple TVs? Bigger drives?
What would you like to see in other Apple TV models?
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June 10th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
nice prediction.
May 10th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
To start with I’d like some content to be available from iTunes for those of us in the UK.
April 25th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Rofl this is definitely a case of reading something out of nothing.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:51 am
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April 25th, 2007 at 1:00 am
I haven’t seen any comments about how thin the argument that web page layout has anything to do with the number of models produced. I suspect it has more to do with either click traffic (I suspect a lot more people are looking at macbooks and apple tvs than airport extreme.) or maybe product model turnover rate (the new 802.11-n airport extreme replaces the older 802.11g airport extreme base station, which replaced the 802.11 a+b airport base, etc.)
There are also a lot of features: like very large SATA drives, which would cannibalize mac mini sales. A more likely model update would be to run cooler. Almost everything else needs to happen on the iTunes store, as opposed to the hardware- cheaper, better resolution Films and videos. A direct connection to the store would be nice, but that kind of thing could happen on the present model as a software update, and new codecs too, no reason to put out another model for that.
I’d also rather have some java or iPod games (joystick maybe?) PVR isn’t going to happen and neither are Halo 3 games, but big-screen scrabble would be nice!
April 20th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
So… Here are my two cents.
1) External USB Harddrive option. Someone suggested an external HDD would spoil the design of the AppleTV. I disagree as there already are external HDD especially designed for the MacMini. EVERY AppleTV owner would order an external HDD that suits the design of this device. So: there you have a big market
2) Ability to purchase content OUTSIDE the US. This whole “US centric” Apple strategy (iPhone, AppleTV, LEOPARD DELAY) is really bugging me!
3) Higher quality content (AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US)
That’s it. I OWN an AppleTV and use it as an entertainment system. I stand in front of my computer (a Mac) the whole day. The last thing I want to do is read RSS from my couch, watch YouTube videos or surf the net. I only want: music, TV shows and movies.
That’s not that hard Steve J., is it?
4) Here we enter the realm of “faisable but impossible…”. I don’t want PVR à là TiVo: I would love an AppleTV with IPTV (there should be a reason why the device is being called “something”TV… So IPTV should be this reason)
So, my list is made of 3 items which I think are not that hard for Apple to adress and one “dream” that I think is unlikely to be made possible by Apple itself.