Apple TV set-top box will be similar to the iPhone

Network media player from Apple - Apple TV - I have always been regarded in Cupertino more of a hobby than a really profitable product, which was worth to bet. After all, Apple TV sales can not be compared with the popular phones, computers and players from the apple company.

However, if you believe AppleInsiderThe situation is likely to change: Apple is preparing to completely update this product. In particular, it is planned that the new model of Apple TV should work based on the iPhone OS 4 operating system, It will be implemented by the original processor A4, and it can play HD-video in 1080p (just now 720p). And the price of the updated set-top box will be $ 99, which should contribute to its active sales.

Small memory footprint - only 16 GB - implies that the content will be stored "in the cloud" (ie, remotely), and not in the device memory. For those users who wish to keep their content with them, it is possible to connect to the Apple TV to the device for backup and storage of data Time Capsule.

With regard to the ports in the new version of the Apple TV, they will be only two - the power and video output. Updated Apple TV device due to its characteristics it is now compared with the iPhone, but without display.

Engadget editor Joshua Topolsky (Joshua Topolsky) suggests that Apple TV will be able to run applications from the App Store. But analyst Gene Munster (Gene Munster) from the company Piper Jaffray still some time admitted that Apple will launch its own in the coming years HD-TV with Apple TV functionality.

There is evidence, and that at the WWDC conference this summer on a new set-top box Apple TV will not be announced. But now in Cupertino work on it has been very active. It is interesting to see how it will develop the competition between Apple TV and Google TV based on Android OS (The last prefix was officially announced some time and will go on sale this fall of the year).