Paul Campbell wrote:Apple HAS to do this so they don't lose any ground to all the Android consoles that do both entertainment and gaming now. Besides, it's the easiest addition of a revenue stream ever, considering all they have to do is make their IOS games selection available on the Apple TV and add a controller...
Oh yeah, and he's right about the "It didn't work 20 years ago so why would it today" line. That's too much time for that to make sense. If you had said "It didn't work a few months ago with the <blank>..." that would make sense because circumstances may not change in that short period of time. The whole world has completely changed in the last 20 years.
I have to sadly agree with this. Not only has the world changed, but Apple has changed. It isn't a neat little tech company now. It is the most successful consumer products company in the world, selling devices that are as much fashion accessories as tech, and being a massive player in movies, music, TV, telephones, and personal recording devices. The company that launched the Pipin is further removed from Apple now than Entertainment Tonight is.
On CBC radio the other day I thought the opinion of an analyst was telling. He said something like "future opportunities will be decided by huge changes in technology. No one knows what Apple will do next, so we don't know." He was essentially associating the future of technology with the next Apple product as a sort of short hand. I, obviously, would prefer this was not the case, but it is basically where Apple is right now. Them and Google pretty much are the entire tech industry. They can launch pretty much anything (or pretty much nothing) and it will stick.