This week, Apple announced some new apps for the Apple TV “hobby,” or area of interest, or “grand vision.” So you now have HBO Go, from Time Warner, WatchESPN, from Disney, Sky News, Chrunchyroll, an anime subscription service, and Qello, for concerts. All right, I’m not familiar with some of these services, but that’s just […]

Just as soon as I thought that discussions about Apple building a TV set had begun to die down, the rumors are back in full force. An AP report this week quotes Brian White, an analyst from Topeka Capital markets, as suggesting that the set, which he calls the “iTV,” will go on sale in […]

Even though Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t actually say anything new about whether there’s going to be an Apple smart TV in our future, he said enough in recent interviews to restart speculation. Since there was obviously nothing new this year in Apple’s TV initiatives, other than a new version of Apple TV with 1080p […]

I’ve said it a number of times that I do not expect Apple to get into the large screen TV business. There are a number of sensible reasons for this, one of which is the fact that this is a heavily-saturared market with companies already rushing to exit the business. Now I suppose some of […]