Apple TV Short Review: Analysis of a New A5

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If you de-focus your eyes from the TV part of AppleTV, Apple is developing an interesting competency in making "pucks" to bring devices around your house into the fold of computer management/interaction:

With AppleTV they've done TVs. With AirPort they've done printers and speakers. With TimeMachine they've done remote storage devices.. As the size of the devices shrink, I imagine there will eventually just be a small Apple hockey puck that will endow any device it's connected to with the ability to be managed by your computer.

Consider Nest too, made my ex-Apple'rs.

I wonder if Nest does well, if Apple would ever acquire them and/or consider branching out into general appliance design. I wouldn't mind a washing machine I could program with my phone and monitor progress of a laundry load remotely. ;)

Rumor seems to imply that some type of watch-replacement is next up though.

If you've seen the Lightning-HDMI connector, they're already getting into even smaller things.

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