AppleTV a Worst Gadget of 07!
December 16, 2007
Popular Mechanics have selected the
AppleTV as one of the '
10 Worst Gadgets of 2007.' The consumer review magazine generally hands out praise for most of Apple's products, but once a year, the flip the script and point out the strange, disappointing, and sometime simply perplexing products from the year.
Their review points out the limitations of the device, and specifically critiques its in ability to stream movies, unlike several competitors. Playing nice they don't blame the device itself, but the video industry, and consumer interest to own physical discs and not necessarily digital media files.
2. Apple TV | $299
There is nothing wrong with Apple TV. Unfortunately, there’s nothing overwhelmingly right about it, either. This is the rare black mark in an otherwise spotless multi-year streak from Cupertino—a product that was not only completely overshadowed by the company’s own iPhone, but by the larger industry of video-download devices and services. This was the year that YouTube showed up on Oprah, TiVo went hi-def and a startup called Vudu debuted a novel peer-to-peer service with a surprisingly large selection of movies. The field has become very crowded, very fast, with Sony recently announcing video downloads for the PlayStation 3 to compete with the Xbox 360’s equivalent service. Even Netflix, with its reliance on hordes of plastic media and snail mail, now streams entire movies.
The magazine touches upons a lot of the
points we made last week regarding AppleTV struggle as a true Home Theater PC.
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