Steve Jobs’s biography suggests Apple has TV in the works

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Steve Jobs’s biography, written by Walter Isaacson and due on store shelves on Monday, has a passage that suggests Apple has a TV up its sleeves. The Washington Post published a small excerpt on Friday that reveals a conversation Jobs had with Isaacson in which he says he has already created a product that could change the television industry much like the iPhone changed the mobile landscape and the iPod re-sculpted the music industry. “He very much wanted to do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones: make them simple and elegant,” Isaacson said in the book. Here’s an excerpt:

“I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use,” he told me. “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.”

Rumors that Apple has plans to enter the TV market have swirled for years now. In March, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said checks in Asia suggested that Apple was already working on a smart TV. Earlier this summer, another rumor started by a former Apple employee said customers will soon be able to walk into an Apple Store and leave with an Apple-branded TV.

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  • Jeremysmith5

    Here’s hoping the DVD player would work in this “elegant” TV, instead of always saying skipping over damaged area. And they probably wouldn’t even have blu ray. It always helps to lower your expectations when apple releases a new product.

  • Applesucksfatties

    Knowing how “innovative” Apple is, this will just be a 42″ extremely overpriced iPod Touch that the iSheep will flock in droves to buy.   Baaaaah Baaaaaah.

    • Anonymous

      it wont be that big

  • Josh Brown

    Jobs wasn’t their “Design Chief” so if it’s “Simple” and “Sexy” all the apple fans will want it.

  • Anonymous

    hmmm this sounds familiar….oh wait got it….windows media center….something you could do with an xbox 360′s extender capabilities since 2006.   Stream all your television shows live or recorded, movies, music, photos, etc etc etc through your xbox from youf home pc…Oh hey, u want to access this stuff while out? you can do that also.

  • Anonymous

    If its anything like their computer monitors, it will be over-priced and second rate. 

  • http://www.flayme.com/troll/ nanatroll

    Intro:

    Hi guys I’m steve i’m a fuc*ing as*hole!

    Body:

    Damn I really need to fix this fledging company! hehe imma copy ideas from the iPaq and and make a new phone to attract as*holes like me! BIG MONEY.

    Closing:

    Oh sh*t! I knew I shouldn’t have slept with members of all sexes and species of the rain forrest. Fuc*ing AIDS!!

    *croaks*

    Epilouge:

    Steve Jobs was a rich as*hole and he died of AIDs. Idiots and technologically challenged individuals obsess over his phones and continue to pop their collars and fart in the gym. He was a SAINT! And he died of AIDs.

    Signed,

    Steve Jobs

    Multimillionaire as*hole, died of AIDs.

    Sigh…

    Whats the lesson here?

    Don’t buy an iPhone unless your an as*hole!

    Buy an ANDROID… a REAL smartphone.

    ANDROID FTW

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