So, why should I invest hundreds/thousands of dollars (?) to replace my $49 Roku device that delivers all my NetFlix and Hulu content today? Huh? Apple TV is $149 for the 64GB version and $199 for the 128GB version. Where do you get "hundreds/thousands of dollars" to replace your $49 Roku device? Who told you Apple TV was so expensive?
Oh, and the Apple "Pencil" ... I remember Steve Jobs saying if Apple ever delivered a device with a stylus to run the other way. Heresy! (Before I go further, I really could use a fine point stylus for my iPad mini. Getting my old, fat, arthritic fingers to press any "button" on its screen is an exercise in futility.)
You are misunderstanding what Steve Jobs was talking about. At the time Steve was making that comment most touch screen phones REQUIRED a stylus to accurately tick off boxes or make a selection on the tiny screen to even work. The screens were all RESISTANCE screens and not very accurate at all. A stylus was necessary to make choices on those screens. Styli were easily lost. . . at which point the screen was effectively useless. Steve pointed out that we ALWAYS had our fingers with us and they could not be lost, dropped, or fumbled.
The Apple Pencil shown today is a specialized ELECTRONIC tool which interacts with the iPad Pro and facilitates drawing specialized artwork lines with style and grace, something a dead stick stylus cannot do. For instance, the Apple Pencil makes doing Calligraphy easy, because controlling the flow and width of the line is dead easy with the Apple Pencil, where it is not with ta stylus that can only turn on pixels it actually touches.
This entire picture was drawn using the Apple Pencil.
Each line is a single stroke, drawn by changing angle and pressure.
None of this can be done by using a mere stylus.
Huh? Apple TV is $149 for the 64GB version and $199 for the 128GB version. Where do you get "hundreds/thousands of dollars" to replace your $49 Roku device? Who told you Apple TV was so expensive? Thus my (?) after "hundreds/thousands" of dollars. Ok, "thousands" was a gross exaggeration so let's stick to the comparison of a $49 Roku device vs. either the 128GB or 64GB version of the Apple TV device.
I think my question's valid: what makes the Apple device superior to something like the Roku or Western Digital devices that also stream content? As with any product launch in which one wants consumers to choose their brand vs. the competitors there has to be a distinguishing characteristic or feature set that the Apple device has that other devices (Roku, Western Digital, Sling, others..) do not have.
I'm just curious to know what the difference is. If it delivers features & functionality that I like, but do not have in my Roku device I'd consider switching.
It really is just that simple.
< And yes, you're right on the Steve Jobs quote.
When I was at the Ad Agency, we often joked that our creative media people (the creative heads that did the art work, conceptual work, etc..) lost their "edge" once they asked for Mac devices to do their work on rather than pencils and sketch paper to do the conceptual work.
I'd give anything to be a fly on the wall in those creative meetings today when the "Pencil" was introduced. I'd bet dollars to donuts that purchase requests for the Apple "Pencil" were flying left and right there today.