My wish for the upcoming Apple event

What, only one? Well, this will probably surprise any Machead reading this, but it has nothing to do with the “tablet-thingy”. My wish? Take the AppleTV to the next level.

Personally, as someone who’s been waiting a long time to see the AppleTV become something more than just my iTunes library on my TV, I’d like to see Apple take the AppleTV in the direction of the iPhone/iPod Touch (and what is rumored to be the case for the “tablet-thingy”). Specifically, open it up for development. Create an AppleTV “app store” and boom, the AppleTV becomes “the” device to have connected to your HDTV!

Once you let Netflix, Blockbuster, Hulu, Boxee, etc. (whoever) create apps that allow their content to play on the AppleTV, then there’s no need for any other box in the living room! Well, any other “set top” box*.

Just an idea, but if Apple wants to transform the AppleTV from “hobby” to another viable “must have” consumer electronics device, then it really seems like they are going to have to make it so that it will (or at least can) play anybody’s content.

nkb
* Interesting that these devices are still called “set top” boxes, insofar as most of us no longer have a “set” with much of a “top” to it… Any “box” that was going to sit on “top” of my TV would have to be no deeper than about two inches!
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