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Sure, Youtube would be the first app no doubt about it, I'd like to see Casey Neistat on TV every night, but now imagine instagram, snapchat, twitter, facebook
by Entangled 9y ago
Sure, Youtube would be the first app no doubt about it, I'd like to see Casey Neistat on TV every night, but now imagine instagram, snapchat, twitter, facebook and all social apps on your TV. Phones will still be widely used on the go, but once people get home they get splatted on the couch and TV would become the main screen from where to enjoy all possible entertainment.
I personally was thinking as a developer, I'd like to code on my TV, I'm sick of the desktop and the laptop, my eyes and back are suffering the most. I need a comfortable chair LazyBoy-style ten feet away from the screen with a wireless keyboard and trackpad which can be used as remote, that's it, nothing else. So for me it would be Xcode and Sublime on my TV, HN and Reddit, and the possibility to develop a million apps just like your iPhone/Android. One single box, the size of a soap bar, attached to your TV, and let developers make it the new platform. Desktops and laptops would be the first casualties (except for enterprises). That's my vision.
Never underestimate the imagination of a million developers with new and shiny toys. TV is the next wave.
- threeseed 9y agoYouTube: https://itunes.apple.com/bb/app/youtube-watch-upload-and-share-videos/id544007664 https://itunes.apple.com/bb/app/youtube-watch-upload-and-sha... Twitter: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271 Facebook: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/facebook/id284882215 https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/facebook/id284882215 Email Instagram and Snapchat and if there is enough demand I am sure they will build an AppleTV app if they aren't already in the process. Now if you want to code on your TV then just buy an AppleTV and use AirPlay to project your Mac's screen to the TV. Your "vision" is literally just the AppleTV. Go build the future: https://www.apple.com/tv/ https://www.apple.com/tv/
- Entangled 9y ago> Now if you want to code on your TV then just buy an AppleTV and use AirPlay to project your Mac's screen to the TV So I need a thousand dollar device relaying to my hundred dollar device? I see.
- ryandrake 9y agoI'd be interested in coding on my TV only if it had the same resolution and visual acuity at a 10 foot viewing distance as my 5K retina iMac has at it's current 1.5 foot viewing distance. This would require about a 200 inch diagonal TV which is sadly a bit outside of my budget.
- ryanx435 9y agoWhy not just connect your TV to your computer as a second monitor using an HDMI cable? Everything you described is already possible. If you really want to go crazy get a graphics card that has 3 concurrent monitor support (they start at 30 bucks at microcenter) and hook up TWO tvs as extra monitors to your computer