From a hobby to a platform: The Apple TV grows up<article>
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Pursuits that you might classify as hobbies: woodworking, knitting, collecting vintage action figures.</p><p>
Now absent from that list? The Apple TV.</p><p>
For years, Apple CEO Tim Cook—and his predecessor, the late Steve Jobs—emphasized that the Apple TV simply was just a hobby, and not one of the main “legs of the stool,” the product lines that supported Apple as a company. But that all changed last week, when the Apple TV found itself sandwiched between two of Apple’s biggest products, the iPhone and the iPad, during the company’s latest keynote presentation.</p><p>
So the Apple TV’s big time now, but what exactly does that mean for our favorite little black box?</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2984778/streaming-hardware/from-a-hobby-to-a-platform-the-apple-tv-grows-up.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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From a hobby to a platform: The Apple TV grows up