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99USD for an Apple TV. I bet the people launching the Boxee Box in November are currently very nervous.
by mike-cardwell 16y ago
99USD for an Apple TV. I bet the people launching the Boxee Box in November are currently very nervous.
- mikeknoop 16y agoMaybe not for this specific iteration of the product but definitely the next iteration. This "first" offering by Apple certainly falls in line with their tradition product release of introducing a new product with less-than-stellar specifications (No HDMI?). Only to update it a year from now. That means Boxee might be in the lead this December but will get leapfrogged a year from now, and to boot Apple gets 6 months to improve upon any shortcomings with Boxee's product.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoNot sure I understand. The one they launched today is not their first. It's an updated version that is a quarter of the size, has HDMI and is less than half the price of the old one at 99USD...
- sp332 16y agoThis is another open/closed debate. Boxee is pretty easy to make new channels for. AppleTV will always be more exclusive. And Boxee has a full QWERTY keyboard on the back of the remote :-)
- mike-cardwell 16y agoI do like Boxee. I use it myself. But the new Boxee Box is going to cost twice as much as a new Apple TV, and I'd bet my right nut the hardware wont look as nice. So it better have some good advantages.
- sp332 16y agoThe Boxee hardware looks AWESOME! Box: http://vimeo.com/13398124 http://vimeo.com/13398124 Remote: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcm95c_ces-2010-handson-with-the-boxee-box_tech http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcm95c_ces-2010-handson-wit...
- mike-cardwell 16y agoIt doesn't look horrible. It looks about 40 to 50 times bigger than the new Apple TV though...
- ynniv 16y agoAs a developer, that sounds excellent. It will be a total market failure. :(