How refreshing. \u00a0And how typically unusual. \u00a0Rather than doing the usual, boring, upgrade – you know, the one where the new product is significantly better than the old one, Apple has reinvented the new release! \u00a0They thought differently and released a product which is significantly worse. \u00a0I’m talking, of course, about the new AppleTV. \u00a0Sure, it’s smaller. \u00a0It’s cheaper too. \u00a0But they’d need to reduce it to the size of an SD card and price it accordingly in order to justify the loss of functionality. \u00a0I like the iOS bit. \u00a0I like the efficient A4 bit too. \u00a0I could stomach a drop in capacity to 64GB if it meant having SSD rather than a hard drive – but they dropped the storage altogether, thereby making it impossible to use as a stand-alone HiFi separate.<\/p>\n
You know what though? \u00a0I reckon that His Steveness is probably using the last generation, and I reckon he’ll keep doing so. \u00a0I reckon he’s quite aware how awful this new TV wart is – but that he’s gambling on the rock bottom price seeing it through. \u00a0Well, fingers crossed – I hope that it bombs. \u00a0And that they replace it with a device with built in storage. Until then though, I’ll be patching the hell out of my wonderful Mark 1 AppleTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How refreshing. \u00a0And how typically unusual. \u00a0Rather than doing the usual, boring, upgrade – you know, the one where the new product is significantly better than the old one, Apple has reinvented the new release! \u00a0They thought differently and released a product which is significantly worse. \u00a0I’m talking, of course, about the new AppleTV. \u00a0Sure, … <\/p>\n