This is a stretch.

If Apple is going to make any aggressive move, it would make far more sense to move into the telecommunications delivery market. If I were sitting in the Big Office at Apple right now, I'd seriously be considering a bid for both Palm and Sprint.

This is a stretch.

If Apple is going to make any aggressive move, it would make far more sense to move into the telecommunications delivery market. If I were sitting in the Big Office at Apple right now, I'd seriously be considering a bid for both Palm and Sprint.

"Its hard to imagine Apple selling a regular TV but that market is also extremely competitively priced, no way they can keep the price the same for half a year."

"Plus the big screen TV market is completely ruled by price. This is also contrary to everything Apple has had success with."

Aren't these the very arguments made against Apple ever entering the cellphone market. Wasn't Apple supposed to get its butt handed to it on a plate in the ultra-competetive cellphone market? The big boys Motorola and Nokia were going to crush Apple. We all know how that prediction turned out don't we.

That is true but there first attempt with Motorola failed miserably, the success came with a Breakthrough hardware device and ultra successful appstore.

A small tablet with the same appstore seems to me the next logical step but what can Apple add to a TV justifying a bigger pricepoint, a $4000 touchscreen?

Maybe wait until the prices settle and have the aTV built in,

Most people wouldn't want this. Built-in components are more problem then their worth. When one piece breaks, you can't easily get it replaced/fixed. This is why TVs with built-in DVRs, DVD players, VCRs, etc, have never sold well.

That is indeed another argument to not enter that market, adding lots of extra stuff is not what the consumers want to have in there TV. There is no added value for Apple to create.

A big a** touchscreen for CNN would be cool though. :)

What will Apple do with there cash on hand? Buying in on a big company like Amazon, LG, Disney or pick multiple small company's from the bargain basement?

I'd guess they'll keep most of it on hand, to stabilize them through this recent economic situation. They have said they will continue spending on R & D regardless, and they have shown they can manage this before.

While they may buy some existing tech/companies, I expect it would be judiciously weighed.

Nothing would surprise me with Apple. I can say this though, if Apple entered the TV market it wouldn't be a TV as we know it. It would look s*** and do somethings differently that current TVs dont do, something I cant think of that after the fact we would all be saying why didn't any one do this before. Then TV makers will be playing Catch up. Thats if they entered the market. They wouldn't enter the market just to provide a TV like every one else. IE I can see them making a TV with a web cam for future face to face chats with other TVs or Macs, or parents to keep an eye on there kids watching TV from the kitchen with a macbook or who knows really right. I personally would rather say Channel 11 then trying to find that dam remote to input the channel. There is room for apple to aww us in the TV market.

... ignore the fact that all us "fanboys" are highly dubious about this, and not particularly interested in the product unless it's revolutionary or an extraordinarily good value.

Just like regular consumers ...

... ignore the fact that all us "fanboys" are highly dubious about this, and not particularly interested in the product unless it's revolutionary or an extraordinarily good value.

Just like regular consumers ...

I recently made the switch and bought 2 big a** TV's for me and the kids and we love it, its an investment that has to last 5 to 10 years. Everybody with enough money to buy a Apple branded TV already has a plasma or LCD, Apple would enter a saturated market with a slow renewal cycle. Unlike the MP3 and smartphone market where they practically made it from scratch.

There are some upcoming digital revolutions the next 5 years (solar powered hardware?) but i highly doubt it will be in the consumer TV market.

"If Apple came out with a TV, there'd be the usual fanboys waiting in line to buy one...."

If Microsoft came out with a tv (to follow a few years later, if and only if, after seeing success of an Apple tv product), I wonder if they will have the same little to no market as experienced with the Zune? M$ fanboys are tired of being treated like second class citizens, having to wait for M$ R&D's so called creative minds to produce the latest must have electronic fad craze to hit the nation.

As a company in these economic troubling times, it is nice to know you have a loyal customer base because they want your well thought out, visionary, quality products, and not because the company is playing catch up to the latest and greatest hip thing on the market with a quickly produced, scrapped together item and then dump a lot of company profits into a wasteful venture as was done with the Zune, at least according to Steve Ballmer... "In digital music, meanwhile, Mr Ballmer seemed all but ready to throw in the towel on the Zune mobile device, which has failed to gain ground on Apple’s iPod. But he suggested that the focus of competition in digital media was moving onto ground that Microsoft understands well: software." (commentor's note: MS understands well: software... well, quite frankly, is debatable)

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2dcdc93c-dddd-11dd-87dc-000077b07658.html

Honestly don't see it happening. Though if it did it'd probably be a bit different than we're used to. It'd probably be a home server TV sound system or something like that. IE the space behind or under the screen would be used to house a few hard drives that could be used to back up your Macs via time machine over the network, and would allow you to keep video content separate.

Unfortunately they'd want you downloading shows off of iTunes which doesn't make much sense with the current market. Fact is a subscription probably would work better for TV shows.

Hmmm, p*** on a TV with a multitouch interface. Does logitech make peripherals for that?