MrSinatra;636513 Wrote:
> have you guys seen the apple TV?
>
Yes but they have decided to not sell it in Sweden, at least not yet.
I could import it but it still loose a lot of its attractiveness
without support for Netflix and similar services which aren't available
in Sweden. Streaming from iTunes on a desktop is not something I plan to
do.
MrSinatra;636513 Wrote:
>
> imo, the current hardware is too expensive, too poorly thought out, and
> not capable of sustaining slim as things quickly evolve around them.
>
And AppleTV is too cheep. Well, I'm happy it's this cheep, but compared
to anything else it's really cheep for what it does. Apple can release
it this cheep because they can sell a lot of them, someone like
Logitech would have a hard time selling similar amount of devices so
they need to increase the prices a little bit.
However, I do agree with you partly, the Touch have too slow CPU and
too little memory to be a server and too fast CPU and too much memory
to just be a player, so if the CPU and/or memory results in a higher
price they definitely selected the wrong hardware configuration.
Personally I suspect it's a lot of other things than CPU/memory that
sets the price, for example the display, and I also suspect the
CPU/memory were restricted by the selected hardware platform at the
time so they maybe didn't have much choices. They do now, but not when
they started to develop the Touch.
MrSinatra;636513 Wrote:
>
> for now, i am avoiding the apple universe, and other competing
> solutions to SBS have their own drawbacks and so on that don't yet
> overcome my investment in slim, but if someone came out with say, a $99
> product that wasn't apple, that let me use whatever software i want to
> send audio or video to it, to play on my stereo or whatever, i'd dump
> slim in a second.
Apple is mass market, so if you want mid-range audio quality and
simplicity, that's where you should go.
If you want high-end audio and customization possibilities, you will
never get that from Apple because things like that doesn't sell on the
mass market it just increase the price and maintenance/support costs.
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