While rumours are firming around the next iPad, the speculation surrounding whether or not Apple will get into the flat panel market continues to circulate. It sounds like a good idea, but I’m not so sure.
Rumours of the near-mythical “Apple TV” certainly had everyone spooked at this year’s CES. The television, that is, not the Apple TV set top box, which apparently is fast running out of stock in the US, fuelling rumours that it’s up for replacement — or the chop.
Apple has recently integrated its Genius recommendation system, already an iTunes staple, into the Apple TV environment via a silent update. The service will be available for both episodic content as well as movies, based on your previous content purchases. It’s accessible from the new Genius menu option for the 4.2 million or so households that have purchased the Apple TV so far. [Apple Insider]
The Kivic One is a rectangular-shaped brick that’s meant to be an Apple TV for your car’s entertainment system. Or also an Apple TV (sort of) for Android phones. Or a less Apple-ly Apple TV you can use anywhere.
A new hack by iOS app developer and Apple TV tinkerer Steve Troughton-Smith allows you to run iOS apps using a big screen on a jailbroken Apple TV.
Since its launch, Siri has met with some hefty criticism — not least from us. But recent rumours about future Apple products suggest it may just be start of something very, very big.
While you and I were catching up on some much-needed sleep last night, Apple was busy rolling out an update to its Apple TV platform that apparently introduced the ability to buy full episodes of TV shows to watch directly on your television. I haven’t seen it though.
