LOL at the apple fan boy

[Phokus]

Then why didn't the Newton sell? Oh yeah because it sucked, your analogy is retarded and untrue. Also the original Apple TV didn't sell all that well, so that makes you doubly retarded.

Because nobody could afford the Newton since it cost almost a grand almost 2 decades ago?

Also the Apple TV sold pretty well, considering how terrible a product it was:

Within the first week of presales in January 2007, Apple TV was the top selling item at the Apple Store.[135] Orders exceeded 100,000 units by the end of January and Apple began ramping-up to sell over a million units before the 2007 holiday season.[136] Analysts began calling it a "DVD killer"[137] that could enable multiple services. Analysts also predicted that Apple could sell up to 1.5 million units in the first year.[138] Besides the Apple Store, Best Buy was one of the first retailers to carry the device;[139] Target and Costco[140] followed shortly thereafter.

Two months into sales, Forrester Research predicted that Apple would only sell a million Apple TV units, because consumers prefer advertisement-supported content over paid content. Forrester predicted that cable companies would be the clear winners over content providers such as the iTunes Store.[141] Shortly after, Apple released YouTube functionality and Jobs stated that Apple TV was a "DVD player for the Internet". Market analysts immediately saw that YouTube on Apple TV "provides a glimpse of this product's potential and its future evolution",[142] but overall, analysts had mixed reactions regarding the future of Apple TV. Some negative reactions followed after Jobs referred to the device as a "hobby", implying it was less significant than the Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone.[143]

In Apple's first quarter 2009 financial results conference call, acting chief executive Tim Cook stated that Apple TV sales increased three times over the same quarter a year ago. Cook mentioned that the movie rental business was working well for Apple, Apple would continue investment in movie rentals and Apple TV, but Apple TV is still considered a hobby for the company.[5] Due to the growth of digital TV and consumers turning to Internet media services, an analyst predicted sales of 6.6 million Apple TVs by the end of 2009.[101]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_tv#Sales

 

[SSSnail]

Why don't people just buy a new Blu-Ray player? Most of them now do streaming media + Netflix + it plays CD and DVD and Blu-Ray discs...

 

[eits]

AppleTV is fucking retarded. I don't understand the concept? Why is it 100 dollars? The thing probably costs a whole 5 dollars to make. Not to mention TVs are already rolling out with the features this thing offers, minus the 99 cent rentals, but fuck that anyways I could just watch it for free on Hulu or some shit. Fail device. That said, had this of been the original AppleTV they might of gained some share in this market.

lol who cares how much it costs to make. if we went around giving a shit about how much things cost to make and not buying them because it's way less than what the price tag said, we'd never buy anything at all.

also, who the hell is gonna cash in their old lcd/dlp/plasma hdtv to buy a new, more expensive tv that has this feature built in and pay several hundred dollars over a tv without it?

go ahead and watch stuff on hulu. this device isn't for hulu viewers. for one, it's in hd. secondly, it streams netflix... so netflix subscribers, like me, can watch lots of things by scrolling through their list of movies/shows. for people who don't watch too much tv, this is a hell of a deal, regardless of the fact that it comes from apple.

honestly, if i was single, didn't have cable, didn't have lots of time to watch tv, and didn't have enough money, i'd definitely look into buying one of these and a netflix subscription and be done with it.

 

[Corporate Thug]

maybe the author is obese.

 

[slayer202]

Why don't people just buy a new Blu-Ray player? Most of them now do streaming media + Netflix + it plays CD and DVD and Blu-Ray discs...

or just buy a ps3

 

[SSSnail]

or just buy a ps3

I was comparing apple to... Apple, at $100 price point. You can get something much more functional, but I bet idiots will buy it regardless.

 

[Acanthus]

Then why didn't the Newton sell? Oh yeah because it sucked, your analogy is retarded and untrue. Also the original Apple TV didn't sell all that well, so that makes you doubly retarded.

Apple wasn't hot shit back then.

They could have (and did) relaunch basically the same product now and it's a hot seller.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Only white people like PF Changs. Its catered to the "upper class" Asian cuisine. Its fucking orange chicken.

 

[IronWing]

Only white people like PF Changs. Its catered to the "upper class" Asian cuisine. Its fucking orange chicken.

PF Chang's: the other orange meat?

 

[drinkmorejava]

Only white people like PF Changs. Its catered to the "upper class" Asian cuisine. Its fucking orange chicken.

You go to pf changs for the lettuce wraps, not the orange chicken. And the orange peel chicken is actually significantly different and better than what you get at any fast food place.

 

[foghorn67]

50 bucks at PF Changs? lol. What were they eating?
I can't even spend that much at the Cheesecake Factory.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

You go to pf changs for the lettuce wraps, not the orange chicken. And the orange peel chicken is actually significantly different and better than what you get at any fast food place.

Agreed. I'm Asian. I would eat PF Changs. I go to Panda Express for my Orange Chicken but the lettuce wraps at PF Changs are decent.

Granted, I completely love authentic Chinese food too, and I'm still dying to find some real Taiwanese cuisine here which is surprising because I'd expect CA to have plenty of that given that I'm in the Bay Area and all.

But PF changs not only is fusion food, but it also has a certain romantic appeal to it at night. The candles and crap seem to make it a decent date place that people go on. I would never take anyone on a date there though... but hey I totally pigged out when my boss took me there for lunch. I love fake Chinese food just as much as real Chinese.

btw it is pricey. I took my GF there once and we ate like $50 worth of food in no time. Waste. $50 can fill 3 hungry college students with leftovers at an authentic place that's not marketed as cheap food for college students either....

 

[zinfamous]

guys, I came here to bash the article writer and PF Changs, not discuss stupid apple products

I've been to PF Changs once, and I'll probably never go back. There was a wait as usually with those shitty ass restaurants, and the food was decent at best. of course the prices were more expensive than they should be, but if you are spending $50 a person, you deserve to get kicked in the balls. its not even worth half that, and there are plenty of GOOD restaurants you can eat at for less even.

hence why the writer is a fucking doucher

butthurt that you stumbled into a thread backfire?

bummer.

 

[zinfamous]

I could literally shit out a turd and steve jobs could slap an apple logo on it and apple fanboys would be running over themselves to buy it. They're that retarded.

Your turd? no.

Steve Jobs' turd?

certainly.

 

[shortylickens]

Your turd? no.

Steve Jobs' turd?

certainly.

Wow, we really have run out of new ideas on Anandtech.

 

[zinfamous]

Wow, we really have run out of new ideas on Anandtech.

:sneaky:

 

[slayer202]

butthurt that you stumbled into a thread backfire?

bummer.

whysoserious? umad bro?

 

[mikej007]

720p.
/thread

 

[Anubis]

720p.
/thread

this is my take, ignoring the 1$ per view TV show shit, not being able to run 1080p makes it auto fail

 

[Drekce]

I haven't yet seen a thread bashing Pei Wei, which is basically PF Chang's as fast(er) food. I happen to love the place, and can feed my whole family, with leftovers, for about $25.

 

[Beev]

A person with no moral quandaries for pirating tv shows has no need for this useless product.

 

[Homerboy]

this is my take, ignoring the 1$ per view TV show shit, not being able to run 1080p makes it auto fail

well to be fair even 1080i would be acceptable.
the $1/ show to rent is obsurd.
$1 for a 22min comedy that I can't watch again? Pffft.

And as far as XBMC running on this thing, it would require external storage to do so. So you're adding to the cost (and bulk) to do so. The two things that makes this thing appealing as a device for XBMC

 

[Patranus]

I find it funny how everyone says this product is an instant fail because to doesn't output 1080i/p.

Guess what, not every channel broadcasts in 1080i.
So if the shows are originally being broadcast in 720p.

Guess what, Fox and ABC broadcast in 720p because of its benefits for sporting events.

Hmmm. Where have I seen Fox and ABC before?

The LOL is at those bitching about lack of 1080i/p output for their 1080i/p TVs when the OTA broadcast source is 720p.

Then again, this is ATOT and people like to hate Apple because it is "cool".