ON www.apple.com/accessibility/ the specifically call out Apple TV as a product they are committing to for accessibility.
"For more than 20 years, Apple has provided new and innovative solutions for people with disabilities, allowing them to access --- and enjoy using --- advanced technology products such as the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV." Apple TV seems to be just a MacMini minus some hardware features. There are hacks you can find to even load plain old OSX on it to make it into a cheap regular mac. The differences in capabilities between a mini and an appleTV seem to be more marketing driven then technical. Supposedly it's already running OSX under the hood so it's not unreasonable to expect Voiceover on AppleTV in the not to distant future. That said, so far in Apple TV's history Apple has kept it hampered so that you can only use it as a media center and not a real computer. I wonder if they won't either take off those constraints or allow the AppleTV-specific software to run on a Mini at some time. Why continue the artificial distinctions? Fear of AppleTVs running OSX cannibalizing mini sales maybe? CB Marie Howarth wrote: > haven't heard a thing and not likely too. apple love to spring the > info upon their loving fans at the last minute. the IPhone > accessibility wasn't expected by most of us for another year or so but > we knew about it the week before it was released. > > I know most people have suggested a mac mini would do pretty much what > an apple TV would do but I'm not sure. as it stands, the apple tv is > not accessible but not to say it never will be. > > On Sep 2, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Claude Renaud wrote: > > >> Hi all, >> >> I recently subscribed to this list. >> Today I post my first message, my first question... >> >> As Apple seems to be on the way of making some of its products >> accessible, have some of you already heard about something about the >> Apple-TV device accessibility ? >> I would be very interested in acquiring it in the future to come... >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> >> Claude Renaud >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
