Looking back at the original Apple TV<article>
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Apple is expected to introduce a new Apple TV on Wednesday, one with an app store and with some gaming chops. An Apple TV, in other words, that finally delivers the full-frontal assault on the modern living room that Apple seems to have been curiously reluctant to mount before now.</p><p>
I picked up an original-generation Apple TV from eBay to remind myself of where this little hobby began, and it’s been salutary.</p><p>
The Apple TV was introduced alongside the iPhone, and both were at the time doing the same thing in their respective industries. Neither was the first of its kind. Both were, for better or worse, quintessentially Apple approaches to the problems they set out to solve. And both were Apple’s attempt to enter, shape, and presumably ultimately dominate these new, emerging sub-markets in tech—since it could see that sticking as a PC maker would quickly lead to obsolescence and death. This was the moment when Apple changed from “Apple Computer” to “Apple Inc”, and both of these products, emblematic of that change, were a bet on the future.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2981882/streaming-hardware/looking-back-at-the-original-apple-tv.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Looking back at the original Apple TV
