I think you mean pc enthusiast, because I have not run into many users who are Picky about what they can and can't do on their laptops. Change is a big factor usually and most people work on a windows machine at the office so naturally they buy a windows machine for home. It's what they know, and what they do know is that trying to get a slideshow together involves powerpoint, just like at the office :-/.
I picture a PC enthusiast similarly to a car enthusiast. HECK I COULD go into my engine and plug in the db02 and change the specs on my vehicle to get me more horsepower, but I like my car the way it runs. It was designed in this manner and and it suits my purpose. I also don't go throwing big MONSTER wheels on it because I *might* want to go offroading. So back to the AppleTV. it's not for everyone, but for those users that already have iPhones and iPads, and a pc or laptop that runs iTunes, regardless of what you think, they can already stream from their laptop any movie that has been added to the iTunes movie folder. So you don't need to consume all your media from Apple, you can drop in your blueRays and convert them to MP4's so that you can stream to the TV and with the newest appleTV you don't have to settle for 720, you can get full 1080p, which you have been able to get from the Roku boxes for a while now, but Roku is an all Internet only channel and why they don't support local lan, I'll never know. The biggest issues with streaming is that many solutions simply don't work well. the AppleTV with iTunes streaming does work very well, especially if you have a clean network (not a wifi with poor signal or crimped damaged cat cables). -Francisco http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More... <http://db.tt/JeXURAx> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:58, Joshua MacCraw <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> > First and foremost I am a consumer and most of my arguments are from that > point of view. > > At the time compaq did this because it would help them get market share, > it's ultimately also helped pc users. I pointed it out to give you some > point of reference as to why PC users are a little more picky about letting > things get closed up again versus say a mac user or some game console user. > </snip> >
