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Top Ten Reasons You Don’t Need Apple TV (Yet)
ilounge ^ | 03/21/2007 | Jeremy Horwitz

Posted on 03/22/2007 9:52:40 PM PDT by JohnSheppard

Today, Apple officially kicked off its Apple TV publicity campaign, providing review hardware to friendly members of the press and enabling selected journalists to publish early reviews. The goal: to try and build enough positive buzz to sustain the newest member of the Apple family despite some mainstream skepticism about its prospects for success.

To provide a bit of balance for all the hype you’re likely to hear over the next several days, we bring you this: a list of the top ten reasons you might not need Apple TV, at least yet. Some are obvious, others aren’t, and all are counterpointed to present both sides of the debate. We’ll leave it for you to decide which side you’re on: will you line up for Apple TV, or sit this one out?

(10) You have a fifth-generation iPod with video and a $20 bill in your pocket. If you have a full-sized iPod with a video screen, you’re in luck: a lot of Apple TV’s functionality is already sitting inside your iPod, just waiting to be used with literally any TV you own. All you need is a $15-20 iPod AV Cable from one of more than ten vendors, and you can play music, photos, and videos directly from your iPod, with up to 80 Gigs of storage space. ........

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; appletv; ipod; itunes

1 posted on 03/22/2007 9:52:42 PM PDT by JohnSheppard
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To: 1234; 6SJ7; Abundy; Action-America; af_vet_rr; afnamvet; Alexander Rubin; Amadeo; anonymous_user; ..
Ten Reasons not to buy an AppleTV... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

2 posted on 03/22/2007 10:22:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
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To: JohnSheppard

As long as Al Gore is on their board of directors, I don't want anything from Apple. They can keep their overpriced Mexican and Chinese made electronics, I don't want them.


3 posted on 03/22/2007 10:54:37 PM PDT by TracyTucson (Teachers : Overpaid and Underworked........ Eliminate > ADA, EOE, NLRB, SS, DOE)
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To: TracyTucson
Too bad for you. I just made the switch from Windows to Mac and wouldn't go back. Overall, the Mac hardware and OS really are better.

Vista is nothing but one long needless headache.

4 posted on 03/23/2007 1:04:12 AM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: TracyTucson

Unfortunately, if you won't buy products made in Mexico or China, you won't be buying very many products.


5 posted on 03/23/2007 4:01:16 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: TracyTucson
Tracy, I like your tag line.

And so might someone else :-)

6 posted on 03/23/2007 4:44:33 AM PDT by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet)
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To: JohnSheppard
I bought Beta and learned an important lesson.It'll be a snowy day in July before I buy a Mac...regardless.
7 posted on 03/23/2007 9:10:30 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: Tribune7

LOL!


8 posted on 03/23/2007 10:45:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Sunday, March 11, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jimtorr; TracyTucson

"Unfortunately, if you won't buy products made in Mexico or China, you won't be buying very many products."

Chevy's Fords cell phones TV,


9 posted on 03/23/2007 6:16:26 PM PDT by Sunnyflorida ((Elections Matter)
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To: Sunnyflorida

"Unfortunately, if you won't buy products made in Mexico or China, you won't be buying very many products."

Almost all "American" Laptops/PC are made in China.


10 posted on 03/23/2007 6:18:31 PM PDT by Sunnyflorida ((Elections Matter)
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