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Posts tagged "Apple TV"
Nexus Q: What the fuck is this? Why trail a product by showing off the fact that it has three massive cables coming out of the back? Surely you photograph stuff like this without cables attached?
All I can concentrate on is the cables and the bizarre shape. Nobody wants AV peripherals that are anything other than square or rectangular. Paddington Hard Stare in your direction, Boxee Box.
At least it doesn’t look like an AirPort Express/Apple TV, I suppose.
(I won’t be buying one, just in case that’s not clear.)
(image from The Verge, who are really good at covering stuff like this)
Five Reasons Why This is the Worst Article I Have Ever Read on the Internet
This is kind of off topic but there is nothing that makes me LOL more consistently and thoroughly than a puff piece on Apple rumours. So join me, as I explain, in true linkbait fashion, the five reasons why this piece from the International Business Times (“New iPhone 5 Release Date: 5 Ways it Will Beat the 4S”) is worst thing I have ever read on the internet:
1. Photoshop mock-up
This image is brilliant. A quick browse of CiccareseDesign’s website reveals an organisation solely devoted to designing things that look like Apple products. Samsung should hire them immediately.
Don’t miss their mock-up of the new “Apple TV iScreen” where there is even an option for you to pay for a 3D model file of it by PayPal.
2. Language as an impediment to understanding
“I”BA doesn’t pretend to be the world’s finest wordsmith, but really, this is something else. In International Business Times World “rumors accelerate” (how is this possible?), a change to the release date of the iPhone 5 (as to which, see below) “may” mean we have to wait longer (logically, this would be correct, assuming that the release date was later), and a bigger display is on the “rumor cards” (where can one get hold of these “rumor cards”?).
The IBT staffer (like The Economist columnists, or Alan Smithee, anonymous) obviously took the view that punctuation IS FOR LOSERS or for people that don’t like the English language.
3. Products that don’t exist
iPad 3. iPhone 5. iOS 6. A6. Duke Nukem Forever. The Phantom.
4. The headline
If there isn‘t one already, someone should make a single-serve website that generates SEO-friendly headlines on any given topic. Which leads us to…
5. S.E.O. (a.ka. “Is this the Future of Internet Journalism? 12 Reasons Why”)
The whole thing is so wonderfully optimised that it barely makes any sense. But no matter. This is what “The Internet” mostly looks like now anyway - by next year, the top half of every single thing online will be a gif of a kitten in a basket with word “iPhone” pasted repeatedly into the caption, while the comments section will consist of 103 entries of “Apple”, “Android” or “Justin Bieber”.
I weep for humanity.
(image from International Business Times)
Philips HMP2000: I’ve been sitting on this image for a few days now and struggling to come up with something interesting to say about it other than “it’s a copy of the Apple TV with a slice taken out of it”, so I’ll just post a picture of it saying that it’s a copy of the Apple TV with a slice taken out of it, as if this is some sort of Pinterest*-esque site with added snark.
(*as to which, you should read my friend Martin’s interesting post about Pinterest and copyright. It’s essential reading for anyone who has a site which copies and reposts pictures from other websi…oh.)
(submitted by Nick Heer, image from Pocket Lint, article via Martin’s Twitter.)
WD TV Live: “We made a media streaming box but we didn’t know how to design it, so we’ve just made it look like an Apple TV. Hope that’s OK.”
Roku LT: The important thing is that it is purple, and the Apple TV isn’t purple, so it therefore doesn’t look like an Apple TV. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to watch Kimba The White Lion on my Roku, thus making pop eat itself.
WD 750GB Elements SE Portable Hard Drive: With its clean lines, glossy black sides, and matt black finish, this Western Digital portable hard drive really stands out against the crowd, provided that the crowd consists of things other than Apple TVs.
(Updated: it’s been pointed out to me that this hard drive would appear to pre-date the Apple TV by well over a year. So it’s possible that Lovely Jony Ive’s design was inspired by it so OH MY GOODNESS, LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE-HEADED MONKEY! LOOK! QUICKLY!)
Xenta Full HD 1080p Media Player: Features include Realtek RTD 1073DD, SDHC / MMC / MS 2 x USB 2.0 OTG Slot, Video Codecs:MKV, MOV, MP4, TS, AVI, MPG, VOB, WMV, DAT, TP, FLC, RM, RMVB Full HD decoding: H.264, VC-1/WMV, MPEG/2/4, HD Divx / Xvid, FLV (flash animation), RM / RMVB AND LOOKING LIKE AN APPLE TV.
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Apple has some of the best industrial design in the world. And don’t these companies know it.
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