Yesterday, 9to5 Mac noticed that Apple had rejigged its online store so as to position AppleTV as a product category. Also interestingly, Lee Clow has apparently hinted that, for the first time since 1984, Apple may be airing a super bowl spot. And then during Apple’s first quarter earnings call, Tim Cook foreshadowed new product […]
Continue reading →…sucks. I wish I’d taken pictures. It’s so bad it’s almost comical. First impressions — initial screens were horribly ugly and had badly anti-aliased text. Then, the device didn’t detect it was plugged into a HD TV automatically — I had to tell it. The screens henceforth were nicer, but not consistent or polished. (XBox […]
Continue reading →I just got spammed by Roku (we owned a second-generation — I think — Roku, which we hardly used and eventually gave away, so I guess they have my email address). I’m not really in the market for a Roku since it doesn’t let me watch iTunes content (in which we have a significant investment) […]
Continue reading →If I thought my blog actually had any influence, I probably wouldn’t publish this. Apple has just patented a gizmo (software, I assume) for seamlessly detecting ads in a media stream such as a radio broadcast and replacing them with media from some other source. So imagine this scenario: Apple negotiates deal for AppleTV to […]
Continue reading →When camera companies add megapixels it’s usually a bad thing — since most digital cameras hit around 6MP in the early 2000s, image quality usually goes down when pixel count goes up (with the notable exception of full frame DSLRs and medium format cameras). Yet all that Apple has really done this year is add […]
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