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I'm a little surprised they're jumping into the literal "TV" namespace so wholeheartedly. Is the future of this ecosystem really exclusively limited to the Tel

by tcdent 11y ago

I'm a little surprised they're jumping into the literal "TV" namespace so wholeheartedly. Is the future of this ecosystem really exclusively limited to the Television? Gaming is already an explicit part of this, which undoubtedly will include VR, which is theoretically suited to Television-like content. If they do this right, the source code running on your VR gogs will mention "TV" everywhere, much like the the current OS running their desktops and mobile devices references a defunct company.

yid 11y ago
> Is the future of this ecosystem really exclusively limited to the Television? Not television the broadcast medium, but television the giant Samsung device in your living room.
rjvir 11y ago
The iPhone name worked out pretty well, even though the phone functionality is just a small fraction of the iPhone's value proposition.
- tcdent 11y ago
  Apple's phone SDK's are not prefixed "Phone", nor is it called the "Phone OS". Exactly to my point: It's called iOS because the breadth of it's applicability was recognized from the beginning. Edit: You're right, and it's different: naming of the mobile OS and namespacing were independent, allowing for a public re-brand without changing any code. Seems the TV is not going that way though.
  - spicyj 11y ago
    It was called iPhone OS for a few years.
  - deleted 11y ago
    [deleted]
  - kposehn 11y ago
    Splitting hairs here: it was originally iPhone OS in the beginning, but moved to iOS in June 2010
drak0n1c 11y ago
Well, think of the origin of the name, Tele-vision. I'd say that TV is just as appropriate a name for VR as VR is, if not even a little better of a name. We didn't stop calling flying vehicles aircraft when the jetliner was introduced. It's not so bad to call a potential VR platform by the "tv" moniker
djrogers 11y ago
"Is the future of this ecosystem really exclusively limited to the Television? Gaming is already an explicit part of this" Presumably people won't be writing games with this simple presentation layer optimized for printing lists of multimedia content - for example TV Shows... Games will (mostly) be written in objC/Swift to the Metal APIs, as will many other apps. This is just a small portion of the app creation ecosystem for the Apple TV, and since it's geared towards things that traditionally are watched on a TV, I think the name is fine. --edited to clean up the quote
pbreit 11y ago
I think TV is an ok reference to "a large screen with a remote control".

by tcdent 11y ago

yid 11y ago

> Is the future of this ecosystem really exclusively limited to the Television? Not television the broadcast medium, but television the giant Samsung device in your living room.

rjvir 11y ago

The iPhone name worked out pretty well, even though the phone functionality is just a small fraction of the iPhone's value proposition.

tcdent 11y ago
Apple's phone SDK's are not prefixed "Phone", nor is it called the "Phone OS". Exactly to my point: It's called iOS because the breadth of it's applicability was recognized from the beginning. Edit: You're right, and it's different: naming of the mobile OS and namespacing were independent, allowing for a public re-brand without changing any code. Seems the TV is not going that way though.
- spicyj 11y ago
  It was called iPhone OS for a few years.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
- kposehn 11y ago
  Splitting hairs here: it was originally iPhone OS in the beginning, but moved to iOS in June 2010

drak0n1c 11y ago

Well, think of the origin of the name, Tele-vision. I'd say that TV is just as appropriate a name for VR as VR is, if not even a little better of a name. We didn't stop calling flying vehicles aircraft when the jetliner was introduced. It's not so bad to call a potential VR platform by the "tv" moniker

djrogers 11y ago

"Is the future of this ecosystem really exclusively limited to the Television? Gaming is already an explicit part of this" Presumably people won't be writing games with this simple presentation layer optimized for printing lists of multimedia content - for example TV Shows... Games will (mostly) be written in objC/Swift to the Metal APIs, as will many other apps. This is just a small portion of the app creation ecosystem for the Apple TV, and since it's geared towards things that traditionally are watched on a TV, I think the name is fine. --edited to clean up the quote

pbreit 11y ago

I think TV is an ok reference to "a large screen with a remote control".