Apple must build an iTV. Remember XBox? Microsoft still hasn’t made its investment back, but what it did do was buy them another decade of Windows dominance on

Apple must build an iTV. Remember XBox? Microsoft still hasn’t made its investment back, but what it did do was buy them another decade of Windows dominance on the desktop, because gaming consoles could have been the post-PC devices that took over from PCs. Now it turns out that phones and tablets are the post-PC devices, but thing might be very different if everyone owned a Sony PlayStation that also streamed movies and music into the home. So what about Apple and their post-PC devices? If someone else figures out how to replace televisions with a connected device, they can also roll sideways into tablets and phones. If you subscribe to game of Thrones on your TV, you are going to want to buy the tablet that integrates wit the TV so you can watch an episode in your bed. You are going to want the phone that integrates with it so you can use your phone as a remote... From anywhere in the world. Apple cannot allow anyone else to make this happen. Either televisions need to remain dumb terminals connected to coax, or Apple needs to own them. Apple cannot sit on their hands and watch Google (or maybe Amazon) figure this out.