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Post by Since84 on Nov 25, 2016 4:15:50 GMT -8
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Post by zzmac on Nov 25, 2016 4:49:07 GMT -8
I've been waiting quite a few years for Apple to finally come out with a TV and I picked it up yesterday finally replacing my old Panasonic plasma.
The new Apple TV is called an LG OLED TV. It has an easy connection, great wifi and apps, a magic remote (with mic) that is truly magical and best of all a truly stunning OLED picture. A lot of great prices out there today.
It's too bad Apple dropped the ball on another product category.
Happy Thanksgiving holiday weekend to everyone! (cheers to the longs)
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Post by appledoc on Nov 25, 2016 5:35:13 GMT -8
Two extra days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. I anticipate this is going to be a home run season for retail.
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Post by CdnPhoto on Nov 25, 2016 5:55:21 GMT -8
I've been waiting quite a few years for Apple to finally come out with a TV and I picked it up yesterday finally replacing my old Panasonic plasma. The new Apple TV is called an LG OLED TV. It has an easy connection, great wifi and apps, a magic remote (with mic) that is truly magical and best of all a truly stunning OLED picture. A lot of great prices out there today. It's too bad Apple dropped the ball on another product category. Happy Thanksgiving holiday weekend to everyone! (cheers to the longs) Me too! though replaced my old Panasonic Plasma with a Sony LED 4K TV. Has built in Android TV. I wish Apple would have licensed Apple TV to be included.
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Post by nagrani on Nov 25, 2016 9:56:03 GMT -8
Lets go apple.
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Post by mace on Nov 25, 2016 10:18:53 GMT -8
I've been waiting quite a few years for Apple to finally come out with a TV and I picked it up yesterday finally replacing my old Panasonic plasma. The new Apple TV is called an LG OLED TV. It has an easy connection, great wifi and apps, a magic remote (with mic) that is truly magical and best of all a truly stunning OLED picture... Me too! though replaced my old Panasonic Plasma with a Sony LED 4K TV. Has built in Android TV. I wish Apple would have licensed Apple TV to be included. Bought a Samsung full HD LED TV last year.
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Post by incorrigible on Nov 25, 2016 10:27:28 GMT -8
I bought an LG last year. Couldn't bring myself to buy a Samsung.
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Post by david on Nov 25, 2016 12:25:34 GMT -8
I've been waiting quite a few years for Apple to finally come out with a TV and I picked it up yesterday finally replacing my old Panasonic plasma. The new Apple TV is called an LG OLED TV. It has an easy connection, great wifi and apps, a magic remote (with mic) that is truly magical and best of all a truly stunning OLED picture. A lot of great prices out there today. It's too bad Apple dropped the ball on another product category. Happy Thanksgiving holiday weekend to everyone! (cheers to the longs) Me too! though replaced my old Panasonic Plasma with a Sony LED 4K TV. Has built in Android TV. I wish Apple would have licensed Apple TV to be included. My wife brought one of those home a month ago. Then we discovered you can't just plug in your Apple TV and bypass the android OS. You couldn't even use the iPhone as a remote. Brought it back the next day. Why write-off all the movies etc we already owned? Hasn't android tv created the market perfect for Apple TV? At this point, unless you ask, the only tv's available are "smart" tv's: android OS, tizen OS, crap Os's. There are non-smart tvs but you have to find them. Isn't this an opportunity for Apple to sell a large HD screen with built in Apple TV inside? with a solid profit margin rather than licensing the OS for pennies while google pays manufacturers to install their crap? 10% of the market could generate 106% of the profit. It's been done before.
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Post by macster on Nov 25, 2016 16:13:08 GMT -8
Good to know..... Neil Cybart (@neilcybart) 11/25/16, 10:58 AM Couldn’t move around the Apple Store due to crowds (like every other year). Microsoft had 20 customers - almost all were just looking.
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Post by zzmac on Nov 25, 2016 18:19:21 GMT -8
Me too! though replaced my old Panasonic Plasma with a Sony LED 4K TV. Has built in Android TV. I wish Apple would have licensed Apple TV to be included. My wife brought one of those home a month ago. Then we discovered you can't just plug in your Apple TV and bypass the android OS. You couldn't even use the iPhone as a remote. Brought it back the next day. Why write-off all the movies etc we already owned? Hasn't android tv created the market perfect for Apple TV? At this point, unless you ask, the only tv's available are "smart" tv's: android OS, tizen OS, crap Os's. There are non-smart tvs but you have to find them. Isn't this an opportunity for Apple to sell a large HD screen with built in Apple TV inside? with a solid profit margin rather than licensing the OS for pennies while google pays manufacturers to install their crap? 10% of the market could generate 106% of the profit. It's been done before. I agree. My Apple TV works with the new LG.
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Post by JDSoCal on Nov 25, 2016 21:07:27 GMT -8
The problem with TV's, as Steve Jobs said, is "they don't turn over and the margins suck." So even if you bump the margins to a premium product, people aren't going to upgrade them every 2 years like iPhones; as we saw with iPad, people might be just satisfied enough not to need the latest and greatest one.
But yes, I think there is a nut in the living room to crack, and Android is in the tree. Without any profit, of course (unless you count YouTube ads. Lots of 4K content on YouTube that looks great on an UHD TV). There is simply no reason to have an Apple TV with the latest gen smart TVs with Google Cast built in, unless you are already an Apple TV owner. Discrete dongles/STB's are quickly becoming obsolete. What's sad is that Apple invented the app paradigm, and that's what I am using to control my 80" Vizio smart TV: The Vizio SmartCast app right off my iPhone (my Vizio came with an Android tablet that I use occasionally).
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