Re: apple TV deemed an iFlop

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:14:56 -0700, kdt wrote
(in article <xIkIi.49001$wN3.12915@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):


"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 19, 3:50 pm, Sandman <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <4w8Ii.111883$pu2.53...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,



"zara" <alb...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
predicted by; zaras crystal ball - 97% accuracy.

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/14901/

"Apple, which declined to let Forbes interview Jobs and other execs for
this
story, provides detailed sales data for the iPod and other digital
wonders
but won't reveal any numbers for Apple TV; apparently the truth is too
humiliating. A company spokesman declined to respond to written
questions."

"Jobs' own ambivalence about the iFlop, however, is evident. At a tech
conference in May Jobs took the stage and casually dismissed Apple TV
as
merely 'a hobby.' In briefing Wall Street on quarterly earnings on July
25,
Apple execs ignored the video product,"

zaras crystal ball says: the iPhone is an iPhony.

Yeah, I think even the AppleTV and the iPod Hifi outsold the iPhone.

"Apple TV "is a flat-out iFlop," Scott Woolley writes for Forbes. "The
ballyhooed box has sold perhaps 250,000 units--far behind the 1
million sold for the iPhone..."

You think? You're a living joke...


How was the AppleTV "ballyhooed"? SJ spent less than 15 minutes talking
about it during the September 2006 presentation and about the same amount of
time during the iPhone presentation. Apple has a much better media center
than the AppleTV -- the Mac Mini.



I disagree. The Mac Mini CAN be used as a Media center with some fiddling,
but it's not as easy to use (requires a mouse and keyboard) and its a lot
more expensive. Apple just needs to add a few more features to the Apple Mini
for it to be perfect - its already very good. There's nothing like it at
anywhere near the price.

.

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