Apple HDTV is Real claims

Friday, May 25, 2012 | AKRAMUZZAMAN at 12:07 PM |

 Apple HDTV is Real claims Anonymous Source

The long-rumored Apple “iTV” is back, and this time the info is coming from someone other than market analyst Gene Munster. According to CultofMac, a “well-placed” source, who chose to remain anonymous, says that he or she has seen the Apple-made television, and that it includes both the Siri virtual assistant currently found exclusively in the iPhone 4S, as well as FaceTime video chat functionality.

Just a couple days ago we carried a report that an analyst sees no sign of Apple releasing an Apple Television this year. Today a report appears that would suggest Apple is close to release of its first TV.

Cult of Mac says that they have a source that claims to have seen the Apple Television. It basically looks like a giant Apple Cinema Display. It has an integrated iSight camera and runs SIRI for voice commands.

Besides that the details are thin. There is no word about how that is supposed to solution to the Steve Jobs's "I have cracked TV."
My take is that this is not real. It's just an interpolation of features and products Apple offers now. It misses the new thing that would make an Apple Television actually something that has a chance in the TV market.

Siri integration, of course, comes as no surprise. In Walter Isaacson’s recent biography of the late Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs is quoted as saying that he finally “cracked” the problem of how to offer an industry-changing television, and many assume that Siri — or some version of voice-controlled navigation — was the answer. CultofMac’s source says that the device he or she saw was exactly the same device Jobs was referring to in that quote.

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