New Apple TV - Did Jobs really just introduce a $99 Mac?
As you no doubt know by now, Steve Jobs did his one-more-thing thing and just introduced a $99, palm-sized Apple TV.
On the surface, the new Apple TV is disappointingly mundane. It seemed almost completely likely that the new Apple TV (what everyone was convinced would be called iTV) would be iOS-based and essentially give you a big-screen iPad with a 10-foot interface.
What Apple introduced instead was — wait for it — the Apple TV. Only less. Less features, as in no hard drive. Less money, as in $99 instead of $229. For those of us who’ve had and used an Apple TV for all these years, there’s nothing new here. Oh, sure, you can rent some TV shows for 99 cents, but only from some networks. Big whoop. Plus it’ll play Netflix. Been there, Roku’d that. It’s not exactly the game changer everyone (including yours truly) pretty much expected.
