Comments on: Please open up the Apple TV: An Open Letter to Steve Jobs http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/ Get more from your shiny box of joy Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Janni http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-27922 Janni Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:31:48 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-27922 Really nice post! Thanks for sharing Really nice post! Thanks for sharing

]]> By: Mr. Jobs, please open up the Apple TV « Apple News http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-9113 Mr. Jobs, please open up the Apple TV « Apple News Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:27:35 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-9113 [...] An open letter to Steve Jobs requesting a development kit for the Apple TV.[…] Thanks to luckk for providing this nice story on Digg (more than [...] [...] An open letter to Steve Jobs requesting a development kit for the Apple TV.[…] Thanks to luckk for providing this nice story on Digg (more than [...]

]]> By: Peter http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-5472 Peter Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:21:03 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-5472 Hi AppleTVHacks.net team Did you ever get any response from Steve Jobs / Apple on your open letter? There are MANY users, developers and company's behind your ATV-request! I do hope Steve Jobs / Apple understand this and does something about it soon. Keep up the good work :-) / Peter P.s. Why not set up a public pole about this on your website and let people vote about your open letter - to do or not to do? Hi AppleTVHacks.net team
Did you ever get any response from Steve Jobs / Apple on your open letter?

There are MANY users, developers and company’s behind your ATV-request! I do hope Steve Jobs / Apple understand this and does something about it soon.

Keep up the good work :-)
/ Peter

P.s. Why not set up a public pole about this on your website and let people vote about your open letter – to do or not to do?

]]> By: chase http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-5264 chase Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:26:16 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-5264 all kind of games please open all kind of games please open

]]> By: JoshEH.net » Quickie: Appletvhacks.net Copies Me http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-5232 JoshEH.net » Quickie: Appletvhacks.net Copies Me Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:43:44 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-5232 [...] to Steve Jobs asking for the Apple TV to be opened up and available for 3rd party development. [link] I applaud their efforts and hope that their voice added to my own might make a difference. [...] [...] to Steve Jobs asking for the Apple TV to be opened up and available for 3rd party development. [link] I applaud their efforts and hope that their voice added to my own might make a difference. [...]

]]> By: Dale Drechsler http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-5140 Dale Drechsler Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:21:52 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-5140 I love my AppleTV, but if it could play back DivX/Xvid so that I don't have to transcode everything I download that would be excellent a huge bonus. Even if they just shipped it with the perian codec for quicktime I guess we'd be in business! I love my AppleTV, but if it could play back DivX/Xvid so that I don’t have to transcode everything I download that would be excellent a huge bonus. Even if they just shipped it with the perian codec for quicktime I guess we’d be in business!

]]> By: McDave http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-5024 McDave Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:33:45 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-5024 Dear Mr Jobs For the love of God do not open up AppleTV. Please do not allow the heckling of the vocal, technophile minority to break the conceptual design mould of a potentially excellent successor to conventional TV. There are plenty of other systems out there for these guys to hack into functionally obese, consumer-irrelevant nonsense only to move onto the next product once that one's been broken. The IT industry is already awash with technological pointlessness where the wrong type of developers have been allowed run amok where well-considered high-level design & common sense should have held firm please don't let AppleTV fall. We know that the opening of playback formats is coming from the pirate sector (unless someone can tell me of a legit download store which sells MPEG4-ASP based mainstream content) though I'm sure someone will post a 'my converted DVD selection' justification even though it too is illegal in most countries at the moment. Don't let these guys set you up for future lawsuits by indirectly supporting piracy. On the subject of good concepts - where's our HiDef rent/rent-to-buy/buy iTS (don't assume the rest of the world has broadband as dire as the US) this is starting to get hard to defend. McD Dear Mr Jobs

For the love of God do not open up AppleTV. Please do not allow the heckling of the vocal, technophile minority to break the conceptual design mould of a potentially excellent successor to conventional TV. There are plenty of other systems out there for these guys to hack into functionally obese, consumer-irrelevant nonsense only to move onto the next product once that one’s been broken. The IT industry is already awash with technological pointlessness where the wrong type of developers have been allowed run amok where well-considered high-level design & common sense should have held firm please don’t let AppleTV fall.

We know that the opening of playback formats is coming from the pirate sector (unless someone can tell me of a legit download store which sells MPEG4-ASP based mainstream content) though I’m sure someone will post a ‘my converted DVD selection’ justification even though it too is illegal in most countries at the moment. Don’t let these guys set you up for future lawsuits by indirectly supporting piracy.

On the subject of good concepts – where’s our HiDef rent/rent-to-buy/buy iTS (don’t assume the rest of the world has broadband as dire as the US) this is starting to get hard to defend.

McD

]]> By: manpan http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-4849 manpan Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:19:34 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-4849 Please open Apple TV with an SDK and hardware support enabling other companies to make third party hardware add-ons or devices to work with Apple TV -- just like the Make for iPod program you could offer a made for Apple TV program. Please open Apple TV with an SDK and hardware support enabling other companies to make third party hardware add-ons or devices to work with Apple TV — just like the Make for iPod program you could offer a made for Apple TV program.

]]> By: antst http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-4839 antst Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:52:39 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-4839 There is no sense and no pointS to ask Apple to make official support for more formats. Apple isn't a company which just want to make everybody happy. Apple is a business, and busines is about of making money and making profit. And part which makes profit in ATV is iTunes. So, it is absolutely right for Apple to keep ATV "iTunes only". But... There is nothing wrong and bad for Apple to officialy allow to develop other kind of plugins and extensions. Ability to read /. news on a big screen with morning cap of coffe or get current weather conditions before leaving house will not affect Apple's incoms. It will probably increase it. Ability to use "officially" external NAS as a primary storage will make it even nicer. I would prefer to have ATV as a main storage of my media library and keep it power-on, than use for this mac, or even macbook. This would be great. It would be great to have option to easily extend functionality of ATV in a way that doesn't affect Apples's business. For example, my current HTPC is made of custom linux setup. And for now I don't see a way thet ATV can replace it. And reason for that is trivial. I easily can extend my MythTV based box with custom and, probably, exotic functionality I need. For example, I could write simple plugin which will allow me to watch TV from Internet broadcaster (payd TV) which Apple, probably, anyway will never broadcast and it took for me less that 1 hour to write this plugin. This kind of functionality would never affect Apple's business. But if one day Apple will step on this market, I would really prefer and happy to pay Apple instead and use their integrated solution. But untill they don't provide this service, give us chance to use alternative solutions :) Apple anyway won't be able to write and provide all kind of possible plugins. It is like dashboard, give us chance to officialy write at least some kind of plugins and give us chance to offcialy extend hardware, at least with external DVD drives and NAS (by this we can collect more iTunes media on this box :) ) There is no sense and no pointS to ask Apple to make official support for more formats. Apple isn’t a company which just want to make everybody happy. Apple is a business, and busines is about of making money and making profit. And part which makes profit in ATV is iTunes. So, it is absolutely right for Apple to keep ATV “iTunes only”. But…
There is nothing wrong and bad for Apple to officialy allow to develop other kind of plugins and extensions. Ability to read /. news on a big screen with morning cap of coffe or get current weather conditions before leaving house will not affect Apple’s incoms. It will probably increase it. Ability to use “officially” external NAS as a primary storage will make it even nicer. I would prefer to have ATV as a main storage of my media library and keep it power-on, than use for this mac, or even macbook. This would be great. It would be great to have option to easily extend functionality of ATV in a way that doesn’t affect Apples’s business. For example, my current HTPC is made of custom linux setup. And for now I don’t see a way thet ATV can replace it. And reason for that is trivial. I easily can extend my MythTV based box with custom and, probably, exotic functionality I need. For example, I could write simple plugin which will allow me to watch TV from Internet broadcaster (payd TV) which Apple, probably, anyway will never broadcast and it took for me less that 1 hour to write this plugin.
This kind of functionality would never affect Apple’s business. But if one day Apple will step on this market, I would really prefer and happy to pay Apple instead and use their integrated solution. But untill they don’t provide this service, give us chance to use alternative solutions :)
Apple anyway won’t be able to write and provide all kind of possible plugins. It is like dashboard, give us chance to officialy write at least some kind of plugins and give us chance to offcialy extend hardware, at least with external DVD drives and NAS (by this we can collect more iTunes media on this box :) )

]]> By: Tear down that wall, Mr. Jobs at TV MAMA http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-4814 Tear down that wall, Mr. Jobs at TV MAMA Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:54:15 +0000 http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/08/11/please-open-up-the-apple-tv-an-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/#comment-4814 [...] couldn’t say it better, so we won’t. AppleTVHacks.net has an “open letter” to the Jobster asking that AppleTV be opened up to third-party [...] [...] couldn’t say it better, so we won’t. AppleTVHacks.net has an “open letter” to the Jobster asking that AppleTV be opened up to third-party [...]

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