Apple TV: Still a hobby after all these years
Apple dusted off its four-year-old Apple TV "hobby" on Wednesday and gave it some polish. But even with a lower price tag, a smaller, sleeker design, and a few more bells and whistles, the streaming set-top box is still likely to remain a side project.
Steve Jobs even referred to it as such when he introduced it at the annual fall event held in San Francisco Wednesday. In place of his famous "One more thing," he said, "One more hobby" when introducing the latest version of Apple TV.
There were some interesting new features: the new Apple TV is a quarter of the size of the old model, got a very attractive price cut (from $229 to $99), and added Netflix integration. But none of those things automatically put Apple in the driver's seat when it comes to this nascent category.
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