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On 10/12/2010 6:30 AM, "Jarod Wilson" <<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Dec 9, 2010, at 2:10 PM, jedi wrote:<br>
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> > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:24:54PM -0500, Jarod 1<br>
Wilson wrote:<br>
> >> On Dec 9, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Ben Kamen wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >>> On 12/9/2010 11:45 AM, Brian Wood wrote:<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> What the article tells me is that neither an Apple TV or Google TV is<br>
> >>>> what I want.<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> PlayON provides much more, for much less, and of course is not even<br>
> >>>> mentioned in the article.<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> I'm not going to pay $0.99 for a TV show, nor am I going to accept<br>
> >>>> something that's actively being fought by a major programming provider<br>
> >>>> (GoogleTV and Hulu).<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Exactly.<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> But you know we're going to end up a minority again as I think we are easily flushed out by the<br>
> >>> scads of Apple-ites... They will buy just cause it's got that logo on it.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Or perhaps because its actually a very useful product to them?<br>
> ><br>
> > I might have thought that myself before actually using one.<br>
> ><br>
> > I don't think it would pass the "granny" test. Apple's UI mojo is very<br>
> > much overstated. This includes having streaming content associated to the<br>
> > PC it came from as well as the need to make sure you have iTunes running.<br>
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> Having iTunes running doesn't seem overly burdensome to me, and if you<br>
> have both iTunes and the AppleTV set for Home Sharing, they find each<br>
> other automatically.<br>
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> Configuration issues (or lack thereof in my case) aside, I find the<br>
> box itself to be quite useful and fun to play with. I can stream audio<br>
> and video to it wirelessly from my laptop and my iDevices, as well as<br>
> control it using just an iDevice. I find the netflix ui on it a bit<br>
> more polished than that on either my ps3 or roku hd|xr box, and I<br>
> definitely love the minimal power and space footprints.</p>
<p>And Apple loves it when you decide you'd like to use some non-Apple and you find that it doesn't work with all their proprietary software/hardware.</p>
<p>Personally I find Apple to be the anti-open source, always trying to lock you into their products.<br></p>
<p>Rodd</p>
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> --<br>
> Jarod Wilson, Apple whore<br>
> <a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a><br>
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