Steve Jobs Is In Your TV Set

No one who loiters as much as we do in the world's endless cybernetic convenience store parking lot (or "Internet," as it's also called) can miss the constant, throbbing buzz around Apple products, most typically around the company's newest iterations of its iPod. These days people are talking excitedly about the new computers Apple will release that, for the first time, will have Intel chips. What does that mean to you, Joe Punchclock, or you, Sally Sixpack? You can use it to record TV shows, but it's also a computer. That's the latest word from spy-site ThinkSecret, anyway, in BlogPulse's no. 15 top link. The new Mac Minis, it seems, will be set up to work as CD/DVD players, but they'll also serve as DVRs, too, if you feel like it, and may even have an integral iPod dock to make them the complete nucleus of tomorrow's home entertainment systems. Add to that the Front Row application debuted on the recent iMac G5 desktop machines, which allows you to access your computer with a remote, and you've got what adds up to — for lack of a better term — a spicy meat-a-ball. Mike criticizes ThinkSecret, though, for what he says is perhaps a superfluous bit of information: "Well, duh, I've been saying that since the Intel switch was announced... These guys tend to predict anything and everything, and if it doesn't happen, they imply Apple backed off of the coolness that coulda/shoulda been." Wait, so does that mean we shouldn't hold our breath for that Apple digital camera that TUAW wrote about yesterday?

Posted by Philip Ewing at December 2, 2005 10:26 AM

Category: The Gadget Scene