Steve Jobs’s biography is out today. And the stories about just what Apple’s late CEO had planned and who he wanted to take down just keep on coming. Today’s most telling tidbit, though, concerns Apple TV.
Not the set top box but a flatscreen Apple TV that Jobs claimed to have “cracked” before his death earlier this month. Read on to find out just what he had to say about this unreleased Apple gadget.
Speaking to his biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs said, “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud.’No longer would users have to fiddle with complex remotes for DVD players and cable channels. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.”
This is the most tantalising piece of info ever about a new Apple TV, a product which has been churning through the rumour mill ever since Apple launched its initial set top box and started offering TV and movie rentals through iTunes.
What Jobs meant by saying he’d “cracked it” isn’t clear. But you can bet that the next Apple holds a keynote, that a new Apple TV which aims to replace your average boobtube will be at the top of every fanboys’ agenda.
Via Washington Post
